Yesterday, Bernie Sanders' Twitter account (which has almost 3 million followers) went on another Big Pharma take down.
Following Sanders’ tweet, stock prices for Eli Lilly immediately dropped 2.4 percent—a seven month low for the pharmaceutical giant.
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Sanders has long led the fight against Big Pharma greed. In 1999, Sanders drove seniors across Vermont’s Canadian border so they could purchase drugs at a cheaper rate than in the US.
And during his Democratic primary fight against Hillary Clinton, the Vermont Senator rejected a donation from Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO and “most hated man in America” Martin Shkreli after the “pharma bro” raised the price of a life-saving HIV drug by 4,000 percent.
“We are not keeping the money from this poster boy for drug company greed,” Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said at the time.
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And the Democratic Party thought Hillary would be a better nominee.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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