NEW: @JoeBiden hasn't budged on #MedicareForAll despite nearly 30 million losing employer-sponsored insurance in 2 months.
Untangling Biden's web of Wall Street/healthcare mega-donors—& their "propaganda campaign"—explains why, @wendellpotter tell us
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Untangling Biden's web of Wall Street/healthcare mega-donors—& their "propaganda campaign"—explains why, @wendellpotter tell us
statuscoup.com/untangling-joe…
Biden's campaign and Super PAC has received $3 million from Jim Simons, a NYC hedge fund giant who was revealed to have sheltered $8 billion in taxes in Bermuda. Simons' Renaissance technologies recently boosted its investments in 3 big pharma/private healthcare stocks
Biden has received over $1 million from Joe Kiani, the CEO of a medical device/tech company. Kiani lobbied the Obama administration to repeal the 2.3% medical device sales tax that was part of Obamacare. After Obama suspended it, Kiani donated bw $500K-$750K to Obama foundation
2 execs from private equity Goliath Blackstone have donated over $100K combined to Biden w/ other employees donating $118K. Blackstone's healthcare company TeamHealth was exposed in 2017 for sending thousands of surprise medical bills. Pres. Trump has suggested reining this in...
Biden's also receiving big money from Wall Street's top law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom—which represents big pharma giants like Pfizer and Allergen (the latter which was forced to plead guilty to illegally promoting Botox and fined $600 million in 2010)
“Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer know the health care special interests can plow millions of dollars into the campaigns of candidates they favor or think they can influence,” @wendellpotter tells us.
