[1]NNU - Medicare for All!
The for-profit health care industry has a powerful grip on the U.S.
political system, and Big Pharma is a perfect example.
A recent report from Sludge reveals that the massive lobby group
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) dropped
millions of dollars last year on political groups to sway policy and
legislation in the current session of Congress.
[ [link removed] ]Tweet from Sludge: NEW: PhRMA funneled millions of dollars to dark
money groups last year, according to its latest tax return, as the
lobbying group pushes to repeal—or delay—drug pricing reforms.
In 2023 alone, PhRMA gave $3.5 million in dark money to American Action
Network, a right-wing advocacy group that ran millions of dollars worth of
ads attacking Democrats’ efforts to lower drug prices.^1
The for-profit health care industry will never stop trying to buy
politicians who will do their dirty work by voting against attempts to
reform our broken system. This is exactly why we need to get health care
industry money out of politics, and it starts with our Patients Over
Profits pledge.
We’re asking political candidates and elected officials to reject campaign
contributions of $200 or more from the for-profit health care industry. So
far, we’ve generated 300 signers, but we need your help to build on this
momentum in the new year!
We’re putting together a special Outreach Team to reach out to as many
elected officials as possible right after the holidays to ask them to take
the pledge.
We’re looking for volunteers who are fairly comfortable using spreadsheets
and the copy/paste function of your computer’s programs, and who can
devote at least one hour a week to doing digital outreach over a six-week
period this January and February.
If that sounds like you, [ [link removed] ]sign up for our Patients Over Profits Special
Outreach Team now, and we’ll send you a written guide with everything you
need to know plus an invitation to an Onboarding Call in early January to
get started!
[ [link removed] ]Sign Up »
In solidarity,
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
1 - [ [link removed] ]PhRMA Showers Millions on Dark Money Groups Fighting Drug Price
Reforms
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