For nearly 3 years a dedicated team of staff on @OversightDems has been investigating Big Pharmaโs pricing and business practices.
Today we're releasing our final report. Everything you need to know about how Big Pharma abuses our system for profit at the expense of patients๐
The companies we investigated raised prices 250+ times on the 12 drugs examined during the time they've marketed them.
Those drugs are now priced at a median of almost 500% โฌ๏ธ than when they came to market.
Mallinckrodtโs drug H.P. Acthar is ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฌ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ%โฌ๏ธTHAN AT LAUNCH 2/
Net pricesโprices after accounting for rebates and other discountsโof nearly all of the drugs โฌ๏ธ year over year.
This data, which hasn't been public before, undermines Big Pharma's claims that price increases are primarily due to, and offset by, rebates and discounts. 3/
Tonight, I voted against the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
I cannot support continuing to explode the Pentagonโs budget above what is necessary and even asked for by POTUS, especially as legislation to help Americans recovering from the pandemic languishes.
While this bill includes many positive reforms, like those to address sexual harassment and assault in the military, it also excludes much needed changes, like giving DC control over its own National Guard and stopping the transfer of military weapons to local law enforcement.
The spending increase above and beyond the Presidentโs budget request is even more unacceptable in the wake of the Government Accountability Officeโs report this year detailing how the Department of Defense is still failing to identify and fight fraud in defense contracts.
Investing in our nationโs infrastructure means not just funding bridges and roads, but also addressing climate change and creating a care economy that lifts children out of poverty and supports working families.
The BBB Act will be the most life-changing investment in families in generations, bettering the lives of millions of children, saving parents thousands of dollars, and adding two years of free, universal schooling to our education system for the first time in over 100 years.
.@OversightDems investigation into @CBP agents engaged in misconduct in a SECRET FACEBOOK GROUP:
Discipline for most agents was SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED from the recs made by CBPโs own Discipline Review Board & agents continue to work with migrants.
Our very troubling findings 1/9
First, some of the most glaring discrepancies in the proposed and actual discipline.
SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING: Content of sensitive, offensive, discriminatory, and sexual nature. 2/9
Today, @VetAffairsDems Chair @RepMarkTakano and I released our findings on one of the most alarming & unlawful episodes of the Trump era by 3 Trump associates.
They tried to exert improper influence on the VA to implement a "hugely profitable" scheme.๐ newsweek.com/trumps-mar-lagโฆ
First off, some background info on the law: The Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) requires groups advising the executive branch operate with transparency and a balanced approach. 2/20
The Mar-a-Lago Trio refused to comply with this law and, with the knowledge of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump (using a personal email account), and other top White House advisors, hid their efforts to influence VA policies from public view. 3/20
Yesterday, I released a new @OversightDems report on the need to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and stop the American people from being ripped off by Big Pharma.
But, what about those who don't even have access to care in the first place? ๐งต
As we talk about the importance of affordable drugs and healthcare, we also need to talk about the importance of ACCESS.
For too many New Yorkers and Americans across this country, healthcare remains out of reach because of access, in addition to cost obstacles.
This is why I worked with @TheFloatingHosp to establish a clinic at Queensbridge Houses, making it the only NYCHA community to have its own healthcare provider on the premises. maloney.house.gov/media-center/pโฆ