.ZeeshanAleem: Democrats have long campaigned on reducing the price of prescription drugs. If they can’t deliver on this, their prospects in the 2022 midterms may look even worse.
for the main drug price reform policy precisely because they view it as an easy way to appeal to non-Democrats. likely played a huge roleSchrader and Peters are among the two biggest recent Democratic recipients of pharmaceutical industry donations, according to OpenSecrets. The pharmaceutical and health products industries are collectively the second biggest donor to both lawmakers over the course of their careers, giving them almost $1.5 million in total.
Rice isn't the same kind of beneficiary of pharmaceutical donors, but she has received $8,500 from the industry since 2020. She also tends to voteUltimately all three of these lawmakers are taking positions that are distinctly unpopular at the national level and within their districts. While they’re being referred to as “” in mainstream news accounts, their position is in fact extreme — at odds with national sentiment and common sense on policy.
In the world of politics, sometimes a good policy is a hard political sell, and a politician is forced to make difficult decisions about whether passing that policy is worth the cost in popularity or political capital. But sometimes a policy is in fact good politics — both improving the world and benefiting the politician or their party. Passing up an opportunity to enact the latter is a huge unforced error.
The Democrats have long campaigned on reducing the price of prescription drugs. If they can’t deliver on this, their already grim prospects in the 2022 midterms may look even worse.
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