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Trump conned his voters--now has LOTS of drug company lobbyests on his TEAM!!
Trumps big rally cheering crowd were conned by the con man--just like his University Fraud case. Now we all suffer.
Big Pharma poised to help Trump shape his healthcare agenda
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/big-pharma-poised-to-help-trump-shape-his-healthcare-agenda/
November 20, 2016
Noam N. Levey
Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON ........................
.......................Vice President-elect Mike Pence's political career, for example, has long been supported by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, which is based in his home state of Indiana. The drugmaker, through its political action committee and employees, is Pence's third-largest all-time political contributor, according to the independent Center for Responsive Politics.
Pence is leading the Trump transition.
Other key figures in Trump's circle of advisers have included a former executive at drugmakers Pfizer and Celgene and the chairman of Williams & Jensen, a Washington lobbying firm. According to federal reports, Williams and Jensen's clients in recent years have included 11 of the world's largest drugmakers, including Pfizer, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Merck and Bayer.
In contrast to his silence on drug prices, Trump displayed little hesitation blasting them when he was campaigning.
He railed against the political power of the drug industry, which he said was responsible for blocking Medicare from using its bargaining power to negotiate lower drug prices for seniors.
"They have a fantastic lobby. They take care of all of the senators, the congressmen," Trump said at a Republican primary debate in March.
Trump's campaign platform included a proposal to give Americans more access to lower-priced, imported drugs, which his campaign said would "bring more options to consumers."
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In September, drug prices shot up 7 percent over the past year, the sharpest increase in 24 years, according to the Altarum Institute, a nonprofit research and consulting organization. Overall health care prices were up 2.1 percent.
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