Bernie Sanders Chairs Senate Health Committee Hearing On Ozempic And Wegovy Pricing

[@MarygraceandWilliamConeff]

Go Bernie!

[@MarygraceandWilliamConeff]

Why aren't you having doctors talk to their patients about lifestyle changes. Eating healthy is so important! Also, why not address the poisons in our food? Sugar and processed foods are key to get rid of. Our government allows these dyes which are outlawed in many countries!

[@YouScareMe1]

It's very unrealistic to think healthy eating will magically remove weight. While it's true, there are a lot of issues that obese people face apart from unhealthy eating that worsens obesity.

[@sheilaplanck6707]

Healthcare is a human right.

[@SamSpodofora]

How long has healthcare been a Human Right?

[@markpartin8403]

@@SamSpodofora Depends on where you are doesn't it ?

[@fabuloussnuffy]

@@markpartin8403 right and how much it costs!

[@markpartin8403]

@@fabuloussnuffy The US spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, and yet it delivers far from the best healthcare system for the overall population.

[@MartinKorsgaard]

Bernie using Lars to explain to Americans why their system is bad. Epic

[@ronaldluning4010]

why is this important? are people overdosing on these drugs as they come over the unvetted open border. The problem seems to be that people want a drug that will allow them to keep eating badly. Teaching nutrition in schools would probably make need for health insurance less necessary. Having CEOs of grocery chains profitting while inflating prices is criminal.

[@ROSE_reddy]

You can’t eat badly too much because if you do, you’ll be 💩a lot! Lol this drug doesn’t go with sweets well and it changes your appetite for the other fattening foods.

[@markpartin8403]

I remember Tom Colicchio from Top Chef saying that it is a lot easier to to stop a kid from crying from hunger by going to the dollar menu, and you get get a lot more for five dollars from the dollar menu that from the organic isle in the grocery store. That's just the reality. However if they could take just 1% of subsidies that go to corn, wheat, soy beans and beef. (just 1% split between them) and give it to organic produce the prices could be lowered so almost everyone could afford them.

[@ROSE_reddy]

@@markpartin8403 plus those organic veggies are hardly filling like a dollar menu meal would be!

[@markpartin8403]

@@ROSE_reddy It's all propaganda, and market manipulation.

[@YouScareMe1]

Completely unrealistic.

[@JOYOUSWARRIOR]

Why do we not manufacture medicines in America? I know many Americans who were not admitted to our colleges because the colleges get more money from foreign students. Many of these students go back to their own countries to practice. Some stay, but because our American youth cannot get accepted we have less professionals here. Anyway, I thought I would put that concern out there.

[@markpartin8403]

We do manufacture meds in the US.

[@Commenter-ib8ex]

The reason why Novo Nordisk has the expertise it needs is because it closely co-operates with Danish universities, which are free to attend and produce some of the highest quantities of scientific papers per capita in the world. Novo Nordisk is also majority owned by a non-profit that wants to eliminate diabetes and vows to operate from Denmark. They literally can't move. Besides its profiteering off the American market, it is in no way an ordinary company.

[@MarygraceandWilliamConeff]

They have a moral obligation to approve SAFE drugs!

[@joeythelipz]

Maybe just ban candy?? 🧠

[@ROSE_reddy]

@@joeythelipz then it'll become black market to be controlled!

[@sheilaplanck6707]

I heard you on NPR today with the CEO of ozempic

[@南生吴]

願你平安

[@Spitpoole20024]

He among all the other government officials…term limits! The former carpenter…all their pockets are stuffed full I can imagine…disgusting…

[@markpartin8403]

Keep relying on your imagination, instead of doing objective research.

[@rpazotto398]

Strategic to have patent broke and made in the US.

[@joeythelipz]

That’s the price you pay when you also control the monetary supply of the global reserve currency

[@JOYOUSWARRIOR]

My insurance does not cover ozempic:(. The same insurance will cover surgery to band my stomach, but they won't cover Ozempic.

[@joycepowell7677]

My private insurance won’t pay for any of it.

[@somebodyfunny]

They probably do cover it just for diabetes and not weight loss. Stomach band is a much better roi

[@bernardqblack]

They literally have a program that lets you buy it for $25/month in USA. I know. I use it.

[@natalieedelstein]

The program requires that you have non-medicare and non-medicaid insurance and charges insurers the same price. It's just cheaper to you but gives insurers less incentive to approve them because they pay more. Also uninsured or under insured people would not be eligible for the program you're in. I encourage a deeper dive into those terms and conditions on that program.

[@staralioflundnv]

What is the name of that program, please. I would greatly appreciate knowing and I bet many others would as well. Times are seriously tough, near Depression days level for those of us who followed the rules, saved, only to get totally wiped out financially under this current BIDEN/HARRIS Administration and get UN-Constitutionally discriminated against. It is horrific and heartbreaking! Thank You

[@ROSE_reddy]

@@staralioflundnvso you lost your savings and or everything under Biden?!

[@joycepowell7677]

Oh really where in the US with insurance that won’t pay for it?

[@jimmonade]

Doesn’t work for everyone unfortunately. I’m very fortunate that my insurance covers Mounjaro 100%.

[@rpazotto398]

Isn’t it a crime?

[@buhans2160]

nope

[@Ricky-w8s]

The convict should be stand up every thing he says is funny

[@Wild-E-cyote]

Bernie Sanders, Fried Chicken 🍗

[@saracorbin1152]

I think he eats healthy -- in his 80s and going strong, no obesity or poor health.

[@roybeach3397]

U.S.A. kickbacks. To Inside Tradeing ask Pelosi, schumer

[@raffinataonline]

How stupid.

[@SamSpodofora]

Why?

[@mrt.7146]

Could have been an email "Hey Novo, you wanna sit down and fix this with the PBMs? Ref. attached.", answered back "Hey Bernie, Yup, let's go!"

[@haraldbluetooth5231]

novo is not the culprit here....end of story

[@YouScareMe1]

What do you mean???

[@raffinataonline]

They're certainly a huge culprit.

[@gingermolina8356]

How old is this guy? Term limits

[@joeythelipz]

Same age as Yoda

[@chrisscott8362]

Bernie is the only one fighting for the American consumer. I don’t care how old he is as long as he is fighting for me rather than taking bribes from big pharma.

[@CVE_00001]

Is he wrong though? Instead of berating people you don't know, focus on the politicians that are using you for polling power while eroding your quality of living through the policy they engage in.

[@wilbur1884]

GET A JOB THEN INVEST THEN WORK & RETIRE LIVE A BLESSED LIFE STAY AWAY FROM DRUG'S & LEFTIST DEMOCRAT'S AND YOU'LL HAVE LIVED THE AMERICAN DREAM USA 🇺🇸 TRUMP

[@Tommysimonsen]

Bernie being mad at everyone is hilarious, I wonder who been in the senate for the last 40-50 years making this mistake.

[@jaycar82]

Bernie Sanders. The pride of Vermont and the reason why I left!

[@markpartin8403]

I bet the rest of Vermont is thankful.

[@jaycar82]

@@markpartin8403 not a thankful as your wife when I was over there the other day.

[@markpartin8403]

@@jaycar82 My wife died 3 years ago what are you talking about ?

[@jaycar82]

@@markpartin8403 can you blame her.

[@markpartin8403]

@@jaycar82 Since my posts are being deleted it's pretty hard to rebut. But that is typical of Forbes.

[@pallekjrlaursen8388]

I like Bernie, but this was embarrassing.

[@jaycar82]

you should move to Vermont and see what it 's really like to live there.

[@ROSE_reddy]

It wasn't but and at least he's trying to help those who use these products!

[@raffinataonline]

What, exactly? That he's going to bat for Americans who need these drugs? Smh

[@pallekjrlaursen8388]

@@raffinataonline, that is why I like Bernie. But a politician from the most capitalistic nation in the world trying to make a CEO from a foreign nation lower their prices, while the real problem is the flawed US health care system is embarrassing.

[@raffinataonline]

@@pallekjrlaursen8388 Everyone knows the US system is flawed and so does Bernie, but Novo Nordisk is obviously making money at European prices and US patients are obviously their cash cows. Jorgensen was opaque and noncommittal. All he did was hedge and blame.

[@donaldkeene854]

Bernie Sanders LOL

[@AlbPerNil]

0:54 bro fumbled the bag so hard 😂😂😂

[@JoeBlow99891]

Bernie, you can’t compare Germany to the U.S. directly because insurance works completely differently. So simple is a world to an ignorant man.

[@joycepowell7677]

Joe bow. Perfect name for someone like you.

[@YouScareMe1]

Yeah. That's the point. The USA should adopt universal healthcare or it's similar counterparts like Germany uses

[@JoeBlow99891]

These senators are painfully unaware of how basics within the drug company/PBM relationships actually function and the barriers they impose. Mr Jorgensen did very well and behaved how you hope he would for someone in his position. The narrative of “drug companies just making big money” is oversimplified and ignorant, and an embarrassment for senators like Bernie sanders

[@joycepowell7677]

Sander’s knows what he’s talking about, unlike you.

[@JoeBlow99891]

@@joycepowell7677 he clearly doesn’t know the basics…

[@YouScareMe1]

Novo Nordisk literally has billions in revenue

[@JoeBlow99891]

@@YouScareMe1 you don’t know anything about drug costs and clinical trial costs and where money is deserved though on the other side of the coin

[@YouScareMe1]

@@JoeBlow99891 so explain. because I'm lost. all for profit companies want to make as much money as possible.