Sunday, October 22, 2023

America’s prescription drug shortage


Lucas Kunce for U.S. Senate

Our politicians have let a dangerous drug cartel get away with letting Americans die. That cartel is called Big Pharma.

CNN Health headline: Cancer experts demand action to end ongoing drug shortage: 'People's lives are really at stake'

In a moment, I’m going to ask you to chip in anything you can toward my grassroots campaign to defeat Josh Hawley and take back Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat. But first, will you give me a moment to explain?

In America, just three wholesalers control 90% of drug distribution for pharmacies.

A handful of giant overseas companies control 80% of our drug supply chain.

And now, for longer than a year, drug shortages have been up by 30%.

People will die, but Big Pharma will STILL manage to pull in record profits. That’s what monopoly power looks like.

Meanwhile, the facts are clear: We CAN make these essential drugs in America and get them to those who need them — but Big Pharma chooses not to.

To their top executives, record-breaking profits matter more than the drug shortages that cost Americans their lives and livelihoods.

Report from Washington University in St. Louis which found 30% of the U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing sites are at or less than 50% utilization.

And why haven’t our politicians done anything big about this? Money.

That’s why I don’t take a cent from Big Pharma executives in this Senate campaign — and it’s why I’m fighting to ban stocks for members of Congress, including fake “blind” trusts.

A chart from the Center for Responsive Politics and Fair Warning titled 'Megabucks for Lobbying,' which shows pharmaceutical drug producers as one of the top spenders on lobbying in Washington.

When we cut through the corporate corruption that’s gripping Washington, there is so much we can achieve for Missouri and our entire country — creating jobs, getting people the medications they need at a price they can afford, and building up the American workers and businesses that make our nation strong.

But it won’t be possible without your help. So please, will you help me take this fight to the U.S. Senate by adding a donation of $10 or any amount you think is best toward my campaign today? I don’t take a single cent from corporate PACs so that when I’m elected, I’ll always work for real people like you.

When I’m elected to the U.S. Senate, I’ll work to do more than just break up these Big Pharma cartels and make sure Americans can access the life-saving drugs they need to survive — I’ll also fight to see these corrupt corporations prosecuted for what they've done to us.

And I can promise you this: I’ll fight like hell against any corrupt politician who gets in my way — in OUR way.

Thanks for all your support,

Lucas Kunce






 

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