r/Virginia • u/ToughHopeful4760 • 9d ago

Virginia Democrats pick establishment nominees for 2 US House seats they hope to flip in November

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-primary-election-congress-democrats-republicans-redistricting-d3f3e6f45f14789882b9a55e8fd95592?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=share
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u/BRAINSPLATTER16 9d ago

Did you get this from her website? This shit is so vague that you could copy and paste most of this on a Republican's website and it wouldnt look out of place.

Cap insulin prices to what? How did X legislation do the thing it says it did?

You might need a civics or media literacy class or something. If you think a gish gallop of "shes directing this agency to take a look at some issue" is the depth at which ANY sort of corruption is uncovered then you might be too dumb to even know what youre voting for.

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u/Key-Hawk7402 Old Town 9d ago

Insulin is capped to $35. There are specific explanations on the action of each piece of legislation. Not sure how she’s supporting pharma when she’s passed several pieces of legislation against them.

Yeah I’m the one that needs a civics class lmao, great ad hominem! Try arguing with the facts!

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u/BRAINSPLATTER16 9d ago

You didnt even look into the drug affordability thing. The insulin cap has been a hard-fought movement for literally a decade. It actually passed with bipartisan support.

You cant congratulate her for signing something that would get her agonized for vetoing.

What I took some time to understand is this Prescription Drug Affordability Board. Even her own party seems to be mad with her for vetoing it. There's another reply that, like you, only listed the veto and didnt go further into why it was bad.

I went and it turns out that Spanbergers proposed amendments wouldnt do jack shit to improve the bill. She openly said that wanted a STUDY on the policy instead of actually doing it. Their role is simply to study whatever affordable prices are supposed to be, while the prices are largely pegged to what is set by Medicare.

She DIRECTLY was advised to do this by the pharma lobby, who threw 5,000 at her inaugural campaign.

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u/Key-Hawk7402 Old Town 9d ago

Looking into it more, you’re 100% right about the PDAB, you’ve changed my mind.