Originally published at: California governor Gavin Newsom vetoes law that would have capped price of insulin | Boing Boing
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Yet more proof.
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Yup.
It’s amazing how quickly he’s blown any chance of me voting for him in a presidential primary.
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He wants those pharma campaign contributions.
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I’ll be supporting Whitmer or Pritzker in the 2028 primary. No way I would ever support Mr Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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That aspect isn’t great, but it isn’t as if flat dollar amount price caps have a long history of success.
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But then it has to pass through a food chain where every step is dedicated to taking profit, and the attitude that if you’re not dead, then you have money that rightfully belongs to their shareholders.
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What is wrong with him this week? It’s like he got a conservative brain transplant.
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When a person with no power says they won’t bother trying to improve things because it won’t make a difference, it’s frustrating. But when a person that has the power to directly make a difference just by signing a damn form says that he won’t do anything to limit pharma price gouging because if he did, the companies would just take people’s money in a different way:
Maybe stop insulin price-gouging now, and then immediately work on the price-gouging of health insurance premiums next
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Did somebody get a little bit of campaign “grease”??.
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The law is unnecessary, Newsom says, because the government insulin is going to be cheap and a price cap would encourage insurers to cheat by moving the cost to premiums.
“going to be” – when? I went to the CalRx website to see if it said anything about when this government-provided insulin would be available. I didn’t see anything about the time frame.
Given that there’s government bureaucracy involved, I suspect this government insulin won’t be available for at least 5 or 10 years. What does Mr. Newsom intend diabetics in California are supposed to do until then?
From the little I read about it, the goal of the CalRx initiative sounds like a good thing. But if it’s being used to justify not doing something concretely good now in favor of nebulous future good, do better Mr. Newsom.
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Illinoisian here…I have been so pleasently surprised at how Pritzker has turned out…when he first ran, I was like, “great another billionaire running for office for vanity,” and yet, he’s turned out to be one of the best governors we’ve ever had.
I will definately be supporting him when, not if, he goes up for President.
Ditto. That and the pandering to chauvinists by vetoing the bill outlawing caste discrimination.
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dude is losing my vote !
Good ol Governor Haircut. Last year he vetoed a bill that would have re-instated automatic pay increases for CSU employees.
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And he’s superb on the stump.
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