Doing something good for your constituents has to be one of the lowest bars for a politician, and yet we have to celebrate it, because the bare fucking minimum is still too hard for most of them

He… has to be making money off this… somehow. Drugs for the people? Is he EVEN a POLITICIAN??!?

It's part of Newsom's presidential campaign.

Still two and a half months until launch, don't jinx it.

someone is doing SOMETHING, as opposed to our Federal Gov which is going nowhere fast.

Type 1 diabetic here. With my insurance I pay $40 for a 90-day supply of two different types of insulin. I literally feel nauseous when I see the "retail" price printed on the receipts edging on $1000.

I know that number is mostly there to make me feel good about the "generous" insurance company, but at the same time the mail order pharmacy I use flubbed up one time and billed my CC for that amount, so that retail price is real in some sense. I fought them on it, but ultimately it was easier just to pay and hit my deductible sooner. I realize I'm damn fortunate to be in a situation where an unexpected $1k bill is just an inconvenience.

I'm not sure what my point is, but this system where commodity drugs are priced at exorbitant prices, and made affordable only by paying a middleman, is insane. Clearly drugs like insulin can be made and sold at a reasonable price, and if it takes a government body to step in and treat critical drugs as a public service rather than a profit-maker, then fuck it let's roll with that!

Can you imagine going broke paying for a life-saving drug knowing that elsewhere in your planet, the law dictates that people can get it for cheap?

It's a good start, but we need to hound them for more.

I mean, shit, I'm a leftist but he can buy my vote with more progressive policies like this. I'm OK with that.

I really want the Democrats to win, and those leftists seem like a significant percentage of voters. So I'll vote to nominate someone far left who gets their votes in the general, not the moderates who voted for Trump anyways. The primary is in the future so we can still obtain this huge number of leftist votes.

I wish they would just vote Democratic anyways. They're close enough to my beliefs that I expect their support. But I already know how they will behave as a large group, and can only change my own votes.

Sounds like maybe Newsom better do something to earn some leftist votes or is it going to result in more liberal bitching non-stop that everyone didn’t drop every moral and fall in line behind a transphobe fuck?