<story><title>Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>&amp;gt;Supreme Court might be sympathetic to some of the industry’s arguments&lt;p&gt;No surprise here, the US Supreme Court is now just like the rest of the US Gov, they are very happy to take bribes.  And due to how the US Gov is structured, no way to stop them from holding out their hand.  So getting appointed to that Court is a great gig, you do not even have to care about the law these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrei_says_</author><text>“Now”? Seems like this has been going on for a very long time.&lt;p&gt;We started paying attention now.&lt;p&gt;As for the US gov and institutionalized corruption I highly recommend Lester Lessig’s work around political donations reform as the first step to democracy in the US.&lt;p&gt;We the people and the republic we must reclaim is an excellent summary of the issue and the solution: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim?language=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>&amp;gt;Supreme Court might be sympathetic to some of the industry’s arguments&lt;p&gt;No surprise here, the US Supreme Court is now just like the rest of the US Gov, they are very happy to take bribes.  And due to how the US Gov is structured, no way to stop them from holding out their hand.  So getting appointed to that Court is a great gig, you do not even have to care about the law these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>The gov should do what Singapore does: pay senior officials well but exterminate any sort of non monetary perquisites and impeach or fire violators.  Also ban any gov person from trading on insider info.&lt;p&gt;Also, if I had it my way, no government person while in the employ of the gov, should be able to vote at the level they represent or work in.  If they’re fed employees no voting in fed elections and so on.  Yes, I know under our constitution this would violate their rights.  But you know, one can wish.  I see it as a conflict of interest.</text></comment>