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May 12, 2022 7 tweets 10 min read
a 🧵Who has interest in #PBMs?
The AMA Foundation has a corporate donors circle that gives them 💵
Here is a pic of the 2018 donors.
Highlighted companies are or own PBM
Pink asterisks are large lobby groups (as is the AMA)
Purple dots are of interest
ama-assn.org/system/files/2… 2/5 🧵Here's a list of grants received by AMA... Why does our government... @CMSGov give the AMA over $500,000 💵 in a year to"transform clinical practices"?
How's that transformation going?

(and why should AMA be able to lobby a government that gives them 💵?)
May 15, 2021 6 tweets 6 min read
@RobertKennedyJr
Patients, through no fault of their own, suffer with over 7000 rare diseases .
Parents, partners, siblings, friends of rare disease patients
know that @PhRMA is needed for innovative meds.
There is even a disease called Kennedy Disease.
rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/… Check out the fortune 500.fortune.com/fortune500/
You don't get a Pharma company till #35, and J and J is top dog cause diversified with bandages and devices.
Next pharma co comes in at 64.
But you know who IS on fortune 500 top 10?