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Fighting evil, promoting good for workers, consumers, the poor and the environment I don't do direct messages

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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
" What neither man said at the press conference was that Trump has netted millions of dollars from their joint business ventures." Trump doesn't care about average Americans or America, it's all about PROFIT imo! www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
citizensforethics.org
Data centers are spiking Ohio utility prices. One developer is Trump’s business partner. - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Hussain Sajwani, an Emirati billionaire, is apparently planning to develop a data center in Ohio. He also happens to be Trump's business partner.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Trump will let his cronies raise utility bills, waste millions of gallons of water, create air & noise pollution because HE & HIS DONORS will profit, hence an executive order that will allow companies to build data centers with no oversight or regulation www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/us-p...
datacenterdynamics.com
US President Donald Trump personally invests millions in data center industry firms
President's portfolio could be conflict of interest, critics claim
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is what Musk bought when he bought the repub party. He can pollute all he wants & the corrupt Trump regime will defend it and add to his profits at the cost of people's health. He can careless about the environment or humanity, just power & profits, imo www.facilitiesdive.com/news/doj-may...
facilitiesdive.com
DOJ may intervene in lawsuit over alleged illegal gas turbines
The NAACP sued two Elon Musk-owned companies, alleging that the companies were operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit at the site, which is on the Tennessee border.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025, and keeping coal plants open is adding to consumer bills. The operator of the Campbell plant, Consumers Energy, which had made closure of the plant part of a strategy to save customers $600 million through 2040 www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
canarymedia.com
Trump admin defends its coal must-run orders in court
The administration told judges that it alone has the power to decide whether an energy emergency exists, a claim that a Michigan official called…
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Nothing republicans do helps average people, only the very wealthy. $1.5 trillion in defense spending for billionaires in defense and tech but millions suffer without health care. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...
finance.yahoo.com
Trump officials consider auto-enrolling seniors in Medicare Advantage — what it could mean for your health care costs
The plan you’re placed into could shape your health care costs more than you think.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Kennedy and HHS seem more focused on enriching private companies with tax dollars that should be going to care for seniors." "Under WISeR, outside companies are paid a share of the costs they “save” by rejecting claims. " www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
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Opinion | RFK Jr.'s AI pilot program is a trojan horse for privatizing Medicare
The program, underway in six states, simply repeats the same flawed tactics that already delay care, frustrate patients and cost them more money.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is what trillions is being spent on, wars & weapons.along with Trumps renovations, travel and parade. Then there's $40 billion for Argentina,yet no healthcare for millions of Americans while giving huge tax cuts to the same people profiting off wars and weapons. www.vox.com/technology/4...
vox.com
Is AI the new “Manhattan Project”? Vox went to Los Alamos to find out.
How they’re using AI at the lab that created the atom bomb.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
More money for wars to enrich big tech and defense contractors but not for people who face dire threats like cancer. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
newsweek.com
Trump says government should stop funding Medicare, daycare to focus on war
"We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. ... We’re fighting wars," President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Every Republican who took part in Wednesday’s vote backed the proposed amendment. Just one Democrat—Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas—joined the GOP in voting yes. Cuellar is worse than Fetterman. So much for protecting SS and medicare! www.commondreams.org/news/republi...
commondreams.org
Nearly Every House Republican Votes for Amendment That Would Slash Medicare, Social Security | Common Dreams
"The so-called 'balanced budget amendment' is the Republicans’ latest backdoor attempt at gutting Americans’ hard-earned benefits," said one Democratic lawmaker.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Republicons enriching big tech and harming seniors on medicare. "Although the program is currently limited in scope, future expansions to include other services and regions could lead to more care getting denied or abandoned." www.seattletimes.com/business/new...
seattletimes.com
‘Why are we waiting?’ WA patients ask as Medicare AI approvals drag
The new program is supposed to save taxpayer dollars. Doctors and patients in Washington say that it's disrupting and delaying medical care.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"In a rare moment of honesty, Elon Musk admitted that Social Security and Medicare were the Trump Administration’s ‘key targets’ for cuts," Money for war but not people. www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
newsweek.com
Social Security warning issued over push for 'drastic cuts'
Representative John B. Larson (CT-01) said Republicans would have forced automatic reductions to key programs.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
State run media, we are just like Russia. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Larry Ellison: Lawsuit claims Donald Trump told Oracle founder: Larry, it looks like Netflix is gonna get Warner Bros., but if you really, really ...Lawsuit claims Donald Trump told Oracle founder: La...
Tech News News: A new lawsuit has now surfaced in the ongoing battle over Warner Bros. Discovery’s ownership. According to a report by Benzinga, the lawsuit alleges t.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Data Centers in PA are NOT paying their share of electricity! Despite Trump eliciting a "pledge" from his tech donors. "Corporations and businesses that consume large amounts of electricity for industrial uses, meanwhile, will only see a 2.58% rate increase". keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/05/d...
keystonenewsroom.com
Data centers drive up electric costs around Central Pennsylvania
PPL Electric Utilities Corporation is looking to raise electric rates for residential households by 7% while data centers get a rate decrease.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Crypto.com is laying off 12% of it's work force. Workers are getting laid off by tech companies while the CEOs make billions. There is so much corruption. This is why Musk, Sacks, Andreesen, Thiel etc want to keep trump in power. They don't care about war, deficits, free speech only $$$
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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🌊 DudeTheyreOnToMe 24:7🌊 @dancinginthestreet.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
FROM THE GUY WHO PROUDLY SAID... "if i have to create stories... that's what i'm going to do"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Cuts to American's healthcare, US tourism down and sky high prices...yet during the government shutdown they partied in a other country. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/f...
cnbc.com
FDA approved a $250,000 Singapore work trip during government shutdown, records show
The FDA sent 31 staffers to a Singapore conference during the shutdown, records show, raising questions of optics, spending and the agency's strained resources.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Why are we using taxpayer money to pay for employees to work for and benefit select private companies? Socialism for the billionaires. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/t...
cnbc.com
Trump admin to hire 1,000 specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI, finance projects
A slew of tech giants, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google Public Sector, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI, are listed as partners.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Rep David Schweikert R-AZ has the best healthcare our tax money can buy...but he wants seniors auto enrolled in the cheapest worst Medicare Advantage plan and force them to stay in it for 3 years. He is for making seniors sicker and insurance companies richer. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Completed data centers create maybe 20 jobs yet they are getting tax breaks from sales to property taxes to lower electric costs. Owned by billionaires & freebies being subsidized by average Americans. Bribes and corruption for what pollutes and wastes resources. consumerfed.org/how-the-bipa...
consumerfed.org
How the Bipartisan Dirty Data Center Boom is Leaving Taxpayers Without Power (Part 1 of 3) · Consumer Federation of America
Behind data intensive products like artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are data centers, large buildings that process data and enable large scale computing. As of March 2025, the U.S. was home...
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Is anyone surprised? The agency releasing the files is loyal to Trump not truth or justice. people.com/epstein-s-br...
people.com
Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names
Mark Epstein, brother of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, alleged in an interview with NewsNation that the Epstein files are being edited to remove Republican names.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The best thing for workers and the environment is to keep Musk's companies out of your cities and towns. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
esquire.com
Elon Musk’s Tunnel-Building Start-up Is as Ridiculous as It Sounds, Maybe More
According to a new report, this project’s safety record looks like something out of the construction of the Erie Canal or, perhaps, the building of the pyramids.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Nikalie is doing a very important social experiment. Bear in mind Kirk's church while saying it was churches responsibility to care for the poor refused to help a starving baby. The lies and hypocrites are truly fake christians. www.ibtimes.co.uk/viral-tiktok...
ibtimes.co.uk
Viral TikTok Video Claims Charlie Kirk's Church Refused to Feed Starving Baby
A TikTok experiment by @nikalie.monroe revealed that Dream City Church, linked to late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, refused to provide baby formula to a mother in need.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
These pardons eliminated $1.3 billion in court-ordered restitution and fines owed to crime victims. Documented payments to Trump, his family businesses, and his allies preceded many of them. medium.com/@carmitage/t...
medium.com
The Bombshell Inside Trump’s $1.3 Billion Pardon Market
The Pardon for Pay President
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Musk cares about money, all about greed, environment be damned. I pity Las Vegas, polluted water and the tax payers will have to fund the cleanup as well as pay to fix the infrastructure. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
yahoo.com
Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again
A Nevada regulator accused Boring of dumping drilling fluids into a county sewage system in Las Vegas, the latest in a series of violations against the moonshot tunneling startup.
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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️‍🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎 @sassysister27.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Sweet Jason 236950 NYCACC RescueOnly He's 13.4 lbs & is 3 yrs old Prev owners had no time 4 him He was playful & loved owners Scared in shelter & fearful of strangers there New Hope Only nycacc.app/browse/236950 This sweet boy needs patience & gentle handling, but he’s so worth it! ❤️Pls Repost
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Musk cares about money, all about greed, environment be damned. I pity Las Vegas, polluted water and the tax payers will have to fund the cleanup as well as pay to fix the infrastructure.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Pay to play? Just asking questions. Proof that the Trump regime doesn't care about waste and fraud. popular.info/p/update-med...
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UPDATE: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom
Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch – donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., Presid...
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
These elites only care about getting richer, not the working class. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
No money for healthcare but we have money for Thiel's company- Over the years, Palantir has steadily beat out major legacy government contractors, and recently landed a deal worth up to $10 billion contract with the U.S. Army. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/p...
cnbc.com
Palantir tops estimates, boosts fourth-quarter guidance on AI adoption
Palantir's earnings topped third-quarter results and the company issued strong guidance, attributing much of its rapid growth to artificial intelligence.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Americans will suffer from astronomically higher premiums. All because the Republicans are set on destroying Obamacare, alongside other Democratic policy initiatives. Meanwhile, they continue to enjoy their cushy government health benefits. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Republicans Claim They Have a Healthcare Plan. But They Won't Tell You What's in It
House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to share the details of the Republican healthcare plan, even with members of his own party.
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Diana 💙 @jstmeinmo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thank you FlameKurve 💙 @flamekurve.bsky.social @disa-khazad-dum.bsky.social @yodamonkey2.bsky.social @hopeful66.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @jaybird54.bsky.social @northjules.bsky.social @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social @mt-nestor.bsky.social @jstmeinmo.bsky.social
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/11/2025
Comment of the weekend
A YouTube comment from user “@Se.tPick339” reads: “My mom voted for Trump. Just last week I saw her watching the Meidas Touch and voted YES on 50. Keep killing it!!” The comment has 363 likes, a reply icon, and is shown on a black background.
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Miko.The.Cat @mikothecat2025.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
pools existed before the ACA banned them,they were plagued with issues. Premiums were often twice the rate that lower risk people paid, they often excluded coverage for preexisting conditions for the first 6-12 months many had a lifetime coverage limit www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Republicans Claim They Have a Healthcare Plan. But They Won't Tell You What's in It
House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to share the details of the Republican healthcare plan, even with members of his own party.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This guy voted against his own and others best interests in favor of the elites, I have no sympathy for him. www.propublica.org/article/soci...
propublica.org
Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...
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🌴Jeff🌴 @counseloroh.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Everyone gets to decide what they believe and how they will respond. But there are a boatload of Billionaires who have turned their backs on Americans, are now complicit with this NAZI regime and WE are financing their efforts. It is time to decide what side you are on!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This guy’s job was knowing what’s “too toxic”
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JavaJunkyMonkey @javajunkymonkey.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
open.substack.com/pub/unpresid... Ohhh NOW he sees maga for who they are.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend panics as MAGA turns against her: 'I cannot believe the insanity!'
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend had a full-blown social-media tantrum this weekend after MAGA world turned its pitchforks on the Georgia Republican for daring to appear on HBO’s Real ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/11/2025
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
FYI Republicons attackingvthe poor and middle class again. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
forbes.com
Student Loan Forgiveness Will Be Repealed For These 4 Groups Under GOP Plans
Republicans in Congress, at the Department of Education, and in the White House are advancing an array of proposals that threaten to undermine or eliminate multiple fe...
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Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
#SharedFacts
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Tracy @tracydeepbluesea44.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
🚨 Beef prices are soaring to record highs, driven by drought, tariffs, and disease. At $9.26 a pound, America’s staple protein now exposes the fragility of food systems and the costs families can no longer ignore. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/americas-b...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/11/2025
GOP Representative Clay Higgins—who, like most congressmen, receives up to $79 per day in meal comps—thinks SNAP recipients should shut up, stop complaining, and stop smoking crack. trib.al/Mu9OCQB
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House Republican Tells Food Stamp Recipients to “Stop Smoking Crack”
Millions of Americans are about to go hungry thanks to the government shutdown, but Representative Clay Higgins doesn’t seem to care.
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Trump Gathers MAGA Pals for Tone-Deaf ‘Gatsby’ Theme Party
President Donald Trump threw a lavish, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, just hours before more than 40 million Americans were due to be cut off from food assistance. Footag...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/11/2025
House Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Robert Garcia, launched a probe into Trump’s attempt to pay himself $230 million with taxpayer funds "You waited until you became President and installed your handpicked loyalists at DOJ ... That isn’t justice, it is theft.” trib.al/EU5YoVv
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Dems Investigate Trump Attempt to Take $230 Million From His Own DOJ
Leading House Democrats have launched a probe into Trump’s attempt to pay himself $230 million using taxpayer funds.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
When experts apply the same tools used to track Venezuela to the U.S and the score says trouble...you can’t ignore the alert any longer. They concluded it...in under nine months: the U.S. is on a fast-track toward authoritarian rule. This is your wake-up signal. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The bill, introduced by North Carolina Reps. Greg Murphy (R) and Don Davis (D), would add four years to the seven-year period that a small-molecule drug must be on the market in order to be selected for Medicare negotiations thehill.com/newsletters/...
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AARP, P4AD blast bill extending drugmakers’ exemption from Medicare negotiation
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care   The Big Story  AARP, P4AD blast bill extending drugmakers’ exemption from Medicare negotiation  The AARP and Patients for…
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