I'll agree that when it comes to big pharma, both parties have been taking donor's money without much pushback. Though only one side demonizes those democrats not willing to take corporate money.
Wow never thought I would hear you call it out equally like that, I assumed it was all Obama's fault and Trump was a savior .
I've been calling it out equally like that for over a decade of ET political posts. The very same problems we debate today were debated long before Obama or Trump ever entered the scene. Every election cycle brings a new swarm of numbskulls pretending it's all new. Congress has been the problem for my entire lifetime and before. Presidents are typically just useful idiots going along to get along, with Trump breaking that mold which is why he gets so much flack. Not that Trump is some savior, he's not. He is just the predictable result of a broken and corrupt system of government. He is, as Michael Moore put so well, our middle finger to the establishment. It felt good as he said it would, it still feels good., and it will continue to feel good until these MF'ers are replaced. Don't hold your breath.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...y-over-572-million-its-role-oklahoma-n1046476 Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules Oklahoma's attorney general claimed that the company marketed opioids to doctors while downplaying the risks of the addictive painkillers since the 1990s. An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $572 million for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids while downplaying the risks of addiction, actions that state prosecutors said helped fuel the state's opioid epidemic and led to more than 6,000 deaths over nearly two decades. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter claimed in court that the sales push by Johnson & Johnson and its pharmaceutical subsidiary, Janssen, starting in the 1990s had created “a public nuisance” that led to the deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/health/sacklers-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement.html Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal The Sackler family would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma, the company blamed for much of the opioid epidemic, and pay $3 billion of their own money under terms of a settlement proposal to resolve thousands of federal and state lawsuits, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/7550...ing-massive-settlements-to-resolve-opioid-sui Several Big Drug Companies Considering Massive Settlements To Resolve Opioid Suits Purdue Pharma has confirmed to NPR that global settlement talks are underway that would resolve all claims against the company. Published reports suggest the deal could involve payments of up to $12 billion and a bankruptcy process that would force the Sackler family to give up ownership of the company. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/o...lare-bankruptcy-sackler-family-out-2019-08-28 Oxy settlement could see Purdue Pharma declare bankruptcy, Sackler family out COLUMBUS, Ohio — Purdue Pharma would devote its profits to cleaning up the devastation wrought by opioids, and the controlling Sackler family would be out, under a $10 billion to $12 billion nationwide settlement taking shape at the negotiating table, according to published reports Wednesday. The agreement, if it comes to pass, would resolve more than 2,000 lawsuits