Peter Maybarduk
@maybarduk.bsky.social
Access to medicines director at Public Citizen, board at Medicines Patent Pool. Lawyer (citizen.org/access), songwriter (maybarduk.com). Maia’s dad.
Meanwhile, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate health committee, issued a report showing that prices are higher now for nearly 700 prescription drugs than when Donald Trump took office.
www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Meanwhile, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate health committee, issued a report showing that prices are higher now for nearly 700 prescription drugs than when Donald Trump took office.
www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
LMAO
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
September 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
LMAO
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
Africa has ~400x fewer MVA-BN doses per mpox case than the U.S had at the same 9-month point in the 2022-23 emergency.
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
June 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Africa has ~400x fewer MVA-BN doses per mpox case than the U.S had at the same 9-month point in the 2022-23 emergency.
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
March 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Outside Congress right now to save healthcare and fight Medicaid cuts — with @popdemoc.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @seiu.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social @ppfa.org @peoplesactionparty.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Outside Congress right now to save healthcare and fight Medicaid cuts — with @popdemoc.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @seiu.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social @ppfa.org @peoplesactionparty.bsky.social
Big police caravan gathering now to arrest protesters staging die-in & calling on Congress to save PEPFAR
February 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Big police caravan gathering now to arrest protesters staging die-in & calling on Congress to save PEPFAR
Here is the TRO, now extended:
February 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Here is the TRO, now extended: