• AOC Grills Gilead CEO on Truvada Cost: 'People Are Dying for No Reason'
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https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/5/16/aoc-gilead-ceo-truvada-cost-people-are-dying-no-reason https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/317718642457115/
"Why is this drug so expensive?" "Truvada still has patent protection in the United States, and in the rest of the world it is generic" This is literally "because we can". That's literally what their argument is.
I have liked AOC a lot since I first heard she was running in the primary, but it's stuff like this and that Netflix documentary about her and other Justice Democrats that cements my positive opinions of her. She seems very genuine.
corporate socialism for them, soul crushing capitalism for the rest of us.
No money in actually curing diseases... Isn't it borderline comical that we live in a society that values insane profits over the well being of others? How does this make us any better than other countries that STILL use slave labor? They cry and cry about how terrible socialism is yet profit from from it exponentially... I think we need to bring back the guillotine
It's because you're FREE (to choose between being indentured through medical debt or dying).
Nothing will change unless Americans get class consciousness
Here's a different section of the hearing without the shitty Now This editing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma2FvPTi5uQ
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