Today America is cheering, or should be, for Katie Porter. With her White Board of Justice and chutzpah she has exposed the ages-old lie that high prescription prices are caused by high research and development costs. With a few pieces of paper, she showed us that high prices are caused by greed as we always suspected. Her main target was Richard Gonzalez, CEO of AbbVie. Greedy Gonzalez who made $24 million in salary last year wants even more, so the company raised the cost of the drug Humira by over 470% since 203. Katie clearly showed that such increases have nothing to do with R&D, but are inspired by those who worship money and care nothing for those who are sick and dying. Anyone who knows someone who relies on costly pharmaceuticals—which is everyone—should be very grateful that we have a hard-headed, soft-hearted warrior like Katie giving hell to America's robber barons.
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