In today’s political news - Part 6

It has been expected...

Why? They are greedy...

They only did it for brownie points to make them look good!!

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Mid 1950s I went to the drug store to buy my grandmother's insulin...

About $1.50 a bottle
Gas was $.25 a gallon.

Insulin $1.50 x 20 = $30.00
So gas $.25 x 20 = $5.00

WHO is making the excessive profit.

We know the oil companies are at record profits.
How about the drug companies?

Now she thinks about it... Rep Nancy Mace..

Nancy Mace alarmed US becoming like 'Handmaid's Tale' after she backed ending abortion rights
David Edwards
August 07, 2022

Mace, a childhood rape survivor, said that she supported overturning Roe v. Wade protections for women but insisted that a total abortion ban was going too far.

"I think you can look at gestational limits that are reasonable for most Americans," she said. "One of my concerns is you've got states that are going to try to ban women from traveling, that if you're raped that you've got to report it to the police. Well, I was raped when I was 16. And it took me a week to tell my mother. By that time, any evidence would have been gone."

"And the violation of a woman's privacy, I can't tell you how traumatic that event was," the lawmaker recalled. "In my own home state, they want women to be required and mandated to report when they are raped and I just can't even imagine a world where you're a girl, a teenage girl who has been raped to have to report those things."

She added: "Handmaid's Tale was not supposed to be a roadmap, right? This is a place where we can be in the center, we can protect life."

Mace said that she had no regrets about opposing Roe v. Wade despite the possibility of a dystopian future resembling Atwood's book.

www.rawstory.com/nancy-mace-handmaids-tale/

Oh, Rick Scott knows so very well all about Medicare. He profited greatly with his grift of Medicare!!


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His For-Profit Health care system...

Scott was pressured to resign as chief executive of Columbia/HCA in 1997. During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs. The Department of Justice ultimately fined the company $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history.[7][8] Following his departure from Columbia/HCA, Scott became a venture capitalist and pursued other business interests. In 2009, he founded Conservatives for Patients' Rights.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott#:~:text=In%201987%2C%20after%20serving%20in,for%2Dprofit%20health%20care%20company.

www.floridabulldog.org/2018/07/gov-rick-scott-mysterious-120-million/

I think that she wants to be the next Susan Collins, in terms of having the press pursuing her, essentially courting her, wanting to know how she'll vote. It doesn't reflect well on either of them. 

That’s why Democrats are planning to go out and talk about it, now that it’s passed.  Admittedly, Democrats are not as good as Republicans at bragging about their accomplishments.  But at least Democrats aren’t trying to take credit for something they voted against.  I give the Republicans a few days before one of them tries to take credit for this bill.

eta- looks like Chuck Grassley already tried to take credit for it

What’s in the bill is popular with voters across the board

morningconsult.com/2022/08/03/democrats-reconciliation-bill-climate-tax-drug-prices-survey/