LEVER WEEKLY: Wall Street Wants To Be Your Doctor
What The Lever Published This Week:
• Americans Paid $11 Billion To Make Drugs You Can't Afford — A bombshell report reveals that taxpayers spent billions developing medicines that drugmakers say shouldn’t face Medicare price negotiations.
• Wall Street Wants To Keep Your Drug Prices High — The government is finally attempting to regulate overpriced drugs, but venture capital firms don’t want to lose their lucrative hold on life-saving pharmaceuticals.
• SCOTUS Is Considering A Deregulation Bomb — A new Supreme Court case could be a death blow to federal protections that have been in place for decades.
• Sirota's Signals: Yes, $13,000 Per Hour — Plus, the truth about your credit cards, the scourge of our distraction economy, Honest Abe’s dying wish, banning your right to cold beer, and much more.
• YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Mega-Merger (Potentially) Blocked On Aisle Five — Plus, consumers could be protected from insurer meltdowns, dueling communities reach rare agreement over water rights, and rural America scores access to clean water.
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Stuff To Listen To:
• LEVER TIME: The Future of Lever Podcasts — Lever founder David Sirota shares some exciting news about the future of Lever podcasts.
• MVC: Cars (w/ CJ Koepp) — The MVC team explores the idea of rural deindustrialization in the 2006 Disney-Pixar animated film Cars.
The Lever In The News:
• The Lever Investigates The Israel Lobby's $90 Million War Chest — The Lever’s Amos Barshad joined Your Call on the Bay Area public radio station KALW to discuss “Inside The Israel Lobby’s New $90 Million War Chest.”