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LDPN In the News 06.08.2020

For God’s Sake, Mr. President, don’t inject yourself with insulin

Las Vegas Sun – 6/8/20

“This move is another political stunt from a president worried about his poll numbers with seniors as his broken campaign promises keep stacking up,” said Margarida Jorge, national campaign director for the advocacy group Lower Drug Prices Now.

LDPN In the News 06.04.2020

Column: For God’s sake, Mr. President, don’t inject yourself with insulin

LA Times – 6/4/20

“This move is another political stunt from a president worried about his poll numbers with seniors as his broken campaign promises keep stacking up,” said Margarida Jorge, national campaign director for the advocacy group Lower Drug Prices Now.

“Instead of tweaks and one-off proposals for political gain, we need to overhaul the system that gives drug corporations monopoly control over prices, and instead put in place fair rules that ensure access and affordability for everyone,” she said.

LDPN In the News 06.02.2020

Coronavirus Treatments and Vaccines Will Only Work if They Are Affordable | Opinion

Newsweek – 6/2/20

OPED by Cong. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Cong. Francis Rooney (R-FL)

Over the past decade, almost every new medication brought to market was paid for by a hefty investment from taxpayer dollars. Each of these drugs was developed in the interest of a greater public good: to alleviate pain, improve health and save lives. However, accountability for public funding has not prevented pharmaceutical corporations from hiking up prices on new and existing drugs for patients, increasing the cost of prescription drugs up to 10 percent every year.

LDPN In the News 05.28.2020

Maine Beacon

Maine Beacon podcast interviewed campaign director Margarida Jorge LDPN: The grassroots campaign to stop drug corporations from profiteering off the pandemic (podcast rebroadcast on 6 local radio stations).

LDPN In the News 05.28.2020

Watchdog groups want Trump’s coronavirus vaccine czar to disclose all pharma ties

The Hill – 5/28/20 

“According to an ethics complaint filed with the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General by Public Citizen and the advocacy group Lower Drug Prices Now, Slaoui should be considered a government employee.”

LDPN In the News 05.28.2020

Ethics complaint filed to force Trump’s COVID-19 Vaccine Czar — a former pharma exec — to submit to ethics rules

Raw Story – 5/28/20 

“Slaoui’s blatant ties to Big Pharma, including the very drug corporations he’s funneling money to, should make even the Trump administration blush,” said Margarida Jorge, campaign director of Lower Drug Prices Now.”

LDPN In the News 05.28.2020

Ethics complaint filed to force Trump’s COVID-19 Vaccine Czar — a former pharma exec — to submit to ethics rules

Common Dreams – 5/28/20

“Trump has put a pharmaceutical executive in charge of handing out the government contracts for coronavirus vaccine development. How could this possibly go wrong?”

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