Bernie Sanders, now in charge of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, is pledging to go after executives for Starbucks, Big Pharma and railroads over their rampant greed — and he’s not afraid to use his subpoena power to do so.
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on February 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Sen. Bernie Sanders , now in charge of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, is pledging to go after executives for Starbucks, Big Pharma and railroads over their rampant greed — and he’s not afraid to use his subpoena power to do so.
The pharmaceutical industry is one of his top targets, Sanders is saying, for working for decades to fleece the American public at every turn.in an interview published on Saturday. “We pay the highest prices in the world and the pharmaceutical industry year after year makes incredible profits, providing their CEOs outrageous compensation packages.”
He then brought up Moderna, which he called “a perfect example of corporate greed” for planning to quadruple the cost of its COVID-19 vaccine once the U.S. government runs out of its supply. “[I]f you are uninsured or underinsured, a low-income person, it’ll be $120 bucks to get that vaccine, which means you’re probably not going to get it. Maybe you’ll die, maybe get sick. And that to me is outrageous, unacceptable,” he said. “We intend to chat with Moderna about that.
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