Ballot Initiatives

Kaiser Family Foundation Gives Stage to Opponents of Prop 61's Drug Pricing Reform

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 17:37

What do supporters of drug price negotiation have to say when the pharmaceutical industry tries to shoot down drug pricing reforms?

You'd never know if you were watching Tuesday's webcast on prescription drugs and “Election-Cycle Proposals for Lowering Costs” hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) charity, which runs the nonprofit news service Kaiser Health News.

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Drug Companies Against Prop 61 Repeat Rent-A-Vet Strategy

Submitted by Jamie Court on Tue, 09/27/2016 - 10:08

You have to have the deepest respect for the women and men who serve our nation and put their lives on the line for Americans. That’s why it’s particularly galling when a Sacramento lobbyist profits by making money from drug companies under their name.

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Planned Parenthood’s Prop 46 Payback

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Thu, 03/24/2016 - 11:45

Prop 46 on the November 2014 ballot would have updated California’s $250,000 cap on compensation for victims of medical negligence, enacted in 1975, for 40 years of inflation. The insurance industry spent $58 million to kill it.

Why was Planned Parenthood with them?

New campaign disclosures reveal how Planned Parenthood benefited from the deal.

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Let Them Pay 2 Grand

Submitted by Jamie Court on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 07:08

Governor Jerry Brown’s signature on legislation increasing the filing fee for citizens who file ballot initiatives from $200 to $2,000 is the modern equivalent of the famous salvo attributed to Marie Antoinette upon hearing of a famine among the French peasants, “Let Them Eat Cake.”

If citizens are starved for better democracy, let them pay 2K.

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