Big Pharma Wants to Dance All Over Rural America’s Health

As someone who has been politically active for a while now, it’s been curious to see how alliances have shifted in my lifetime, with some institutions once historically left now going right and vice-versa. Some will insist that Donald Trump caused this shift – others might argue this shift caused Trump.

Perhaps the clearest example of switching political dance partners is Corporate America and unions. Corporations embracing globalism abroad and mass migration at home has alienated blue-collar workers, providing Trump with the muscle to overpower the Republican Party into its current form. In the Democrats’ November post-mortem, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was quick to blame his side’s historic losses on this fact. Others on the left have shown no such self-awareness, doubling down on the unpopular issues that led to their defeat: transgenderism, protesting Israel, energy foolishness, and so on.

But an even greater instance of swapping political dance partners is Big Pharma. Historically, Republicans supported the pharmaceutical industry on general free-market grounds, and in response, they supported our campaigns. But Big Pharma hasn’t exactly been our friend of late, with its exploitation of both the COVID “pandemic,” pushing of medication abortions, and transgender hysteria. So it’s unsurprising that one of Big Pharma’s best dance partners now is … Bernie Sanders.

And amidst this, Big Pharma is trying to pull the old Potomac Two-Step, attacking a federal program that helps mostly conservative people – ostensibly on conservative grounds – just so they can conserve more of their own money.

There’s an advocacy group called Building America’s Future, which has mounted a high-budget, multistate campaign against the federal 340B program. The campaign alleges that 340B subsidizes healthcare for illegal aliens and gender transitions for minors, thereby “secretly sabotaging [the president’s] agenda.” This campaign is running in Nebraska, North Dakota, Kentucky, and Utah – the home state of both myself and my former boss, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R), who helped create 340B more than 30 years ago. […]

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