Big Pharma already pushing back on Trump's desire to bring medicine manufacturing back to USA

[rolltide]

one thing i was hoping would come out of this is that American pharmaceutical companies would realize that big margins realized by allowing their medicine, including the raw materials to make them, to be made in China were not worth it. I was wrong....making money and posting monster margins is simply more important to them then owning the supply chain of their pills to assure Americans are ingesting the proper medication in the reported dosage while allaying public fear of drug availability

https://spectator.us/big-pharma-trade-association-trump-buy-american-order/

The Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM), a trade association for major pharmaceutical manufacturers such as 3M, is drafting a letter to send to President Trump opposing his proposed ‘Buy American’ executive order reshoring medical supply chains. The letter currently has over 40 signatories, including PhRMA, a Big Pharma lobbying organization, dozens of medical nonprofits, and free market-oriented organizations, indicating the president will face immense pressure across the political spectrum for trying to reduce US medical dependence on China.

AAM provided the Spectator with the following updated list of signatories:

• 60 Plus Association
• Advocacy & Awareness for Immune Disorders Association
• Allergy & Asthma Network
• American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
• American Behcet’s Disease Association
• American Consumer Institute
• ASPIRE: Alliance to Solve PANS & Immune-Related Encephalopathies
• Association for Accessible Medicines
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
• Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance, Inc.
• Beyond Celiac
• Black Women’s Health Imperative
• Center for Freedom and Prosperity
• Consumer Healthcare Products Association
• Council for Citizens Against Government Waste
• Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation
• Dysautonomia International
• FreedomWorks
• Frontiers of Freedom
• GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer
• Global Healthy Living Foundation
• Healthcare Distribution Alliance
• Innovative Defense Foundation
• International Foundation for Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Arthritis
• International Pemphigus Pemphigoid Foundation
• Lupus and Allied Diseases Association, Inc.
• Lupus Foundation of America
• Marti Nelson Cancer Foundation
• Mental Health America
• Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
• National Alopecia Areata Foundation
• National Consumers League
• National Eczema Association
• National Health Council
• National Psoriasis Foundation
• National Taxpayers Union
• Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
• PhRMA
• Sjögren’s Foundation
• Spina Bifida Association
• Taxpayers Protection Alliance
• USP
• Vitiligo Support International

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[Willie99]

C'mon RT, admit it, you like the man and what he's trying to do for this country

 

[rolltide]

C'mon RT, admit it, you like the man and what he's trying to do for this country

i love the concepts but i don't like the man. so far it's mostly be talk but I will agree that something like this, holding pharma accountable for their supply chain, shows that corporate greed could make him step on his dick.

close borders, pull manufacturing back to US or allies, be less reliant on China, get out of bogus international agreements (paris accord, wto, who, un especially ... nafta secondarily), force the WTO to take China off of their "3rd world country" trading favorability list, and knock down obstacles for businesses to succeed.

if the Q-Anons are every correct that he's also trying to expose the pedo ring of hollywood, politics, and royalty then i'll be a big fan but right now I'm on the fence on whether i will even vote.

so much bullshit just squeaked through like $$ for abortions, jfk center, congress pay increases, tons of money to NOAA & NASA, etc and he'll sign off on it so i will hold him somewhat culpable for that garbage.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

i love the concepts but i don't like the man. so far it's mostly be talk but I will agree that something like this, holding pharma accountable for their supply chain, shows that corporate greed could make him step on his dick.

close borders, pull manufacturing back to US or allies, be less reliant on China, get out of bogus international agreements (paris accord, wto, who, un especially ... nafta secondarily), force the WTO to take China off of their "3rd world country" trading favorability list, and knock down obstacles for businesses to succeed.

if the Q-Anons are every correct that he's also trying to expose the pedo ring of hollywood, politics, and royalty then i'll be a big fan but right now I'm on the fence on whether i will even vote.

so much bullshit just squeaked through like $$ for abortions, jfk center, congress pay increases, tons of money to NOAA & NASA, etc and he'll sign off on it so i will hold him somewhat culpable for that garbage.

[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]Roll, it's called reality and it bites. The days of Gingrich and Clinton are just
a distant memory. As long as the Dems control 1 of the Houses this is what you're
going to get and even if the Repubs manage to get control of both come November I'm
not sure you're going to see fiscal conservatism come roaring back.

I don't like any pork attached to any bill much less 1 that is as important as this 1.
Having said that I don't know what Trump can do about it other than vetoing the damn
thing and that ain't going to happen.

I lay all of the blame on Congress. They write the bills, they're responsible. The 1
that came out of the Republican controlled Senate is the 1 we're taking about so
McConnell gets my vote for asshole of the day for passing it when he has the majority.

And keep in mind the House hasn't voted yet. This isn't finished by a damn sight.

I'm sure you don't need my advice and probably don't want it but I'm going to give it
to you anyway.

Concern yourself about the shit you can control and live as best you can with what you can't.

Life is to short. [/FONT]

 

[rolltide]

CT democratic senator Blumenthal is already calling for a 2nd stimulus package

these guys are awesome

 

[SheriffJoe]

Marsha Blackburn: Hold China Accountable, Bring Drug Manufacturing Back to U.S.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) offered tough talk on China, including its role in spreading a virus that has killed thousands around the world and holding the United States hostage by controlling the global drug supply, in a Thursday interview on
with host Alex Marlow.

Marlow opened the interview with a portion of Blackburn’s hard-hitting speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, where she called for stopping Chinese thuggery:

This may seem like something that is too large or too risky an undertaking, but we have already paid dearly for our reliance on Chinese drug manufacturers, and it’s not going to stop because that vulnerability is leverage in the hands of madmen in Beijing who seek nothing but power and will go to any lengths to acquire that power. They don’t care who they hurt. It’s clear with this global pandemic. They don’t care if it is innocent people that are sick or maybe even that lose their life. And they defy us, they defy us when we try to stop them.

It’s time that we rise to the challenge and that we return this supply chain.
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Blackburn told Breitbart News Daily that China’s control of the global drug supply and it using it against its enemies, including the United States, has been put in the spotlight after the coronavirus took root in Central China before spreading around the world.

“China caused this,” Blackburn said. “They withheld the information. They erroneously blamed it on the United States Army.”

“We should hold them to account for what they have caused — that created a global pandemic and destabilized the health and the financial systems and the food supply of people all over the globe,” Blackburn said.

The United States should also, Blackburn said, put a halt to its dependence on China by bringing the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals back to this country.

“The best way for us to do that is to make America manufacture again,” Blackburn said, referring to the Securing America’s Medicine Cabinet Act, which she and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) are proposing.

Blackburn has dubbed the bill MAMA — Make America Manufacture Again.

The bill also calls for building up the nation’s pharmaceutical stockpile and developing an emerging threats and technology division at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

It also would establish Centers of Excellence at universities to partner with U.S. pharmaceutical companies to strengthen the nation’s drug infrastructure.

The interview also included a discussion about China’s efforts to dominate global technology and the need for the U.S. to thwart that effort.

Both Marlow and Blackburn said they see a silver lining in this current crisis, with Marlow saying it has “awakened a sleeping giant” and Blackburn saying we must move forward based on lessons learned.

“Let’s never let China have control of the global economy again,” Blackburn said.

Follow Penny Starr on Twitter.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...untable-bring-drug-manufacturing-back-to-u-s/

 

[SheriffJoe]

The narrative is changing big time!

The Trump MAGA brand of anti-globalism, anti-unfettered immigration, anti-open borders was already gaining momentum here at home and around the world before this crisis. Now it's going to explode as a whole new generation of politicians emerge running on the America-First Trump platform.

Any politician who thinks we're going back to business as usual with cesspools like China after this disaster has another thing coming, and will feel it at the ballot box.

If the Chinese Wuhan virus ends up taking down the EU...well, out of all evil must come something good.

 

[roadreeler57]

Were 23T in debt where in the hell is this money coming from?.....They need to cut the credit cards....The creditors need to cut us off....We are the poorest country in the world & they keep pushing like we are the richest.....Its bullshit & the American public eats it up...Trump is supposed to be a businessman but what businessman runs with that much debt?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Were 23T in debt where in the hell is this money coming from?.....They need to cut the credit cards....The creditors need to cut us off....We are the poorest country in the world & they keep pushing like we are the richest.....Its bullshit & the American public eats it up...Trump is supposed to be a businessman but what businessman runs with that much debt?

[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]It's a house of cards. You know it, I know it and I'm damn sure Trump knows it.

Trump is a businessman and a pretty succsessful one but he doesn't own the U.S.
He can't make economic decision on his own. Congress has the power of the purse.
Both sides of the isle are pigs feeding at the endless government trough. It's who
they are, it's what they do.

I'm pretty sure we're past the point of no return. So I say embrace the suck because
there's not a damn thing you can do about it.[/FONT]