{"id":37127,"date":"2019-07-20T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37127"},"modified":"2019-07-20T09:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:35:51","slug":"an-example-of-republicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/20\/an-example-of-republicare\/","title":{"rendered":"An Example of RepubliCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not often that we get as good an example of RepubliCare as this.  When the treatment fleeces the recipients of everything they have and kills them, that’s the RepubliCare Death Benefit.  The Republican Reich provides death at no extra charge.  In this example, greedy Republican corporate criminals intentionally addict millions to opioids.  Then they feed them more and more pills, via the black market, until it kills them.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Walgreens employee was bewildered by the quantity of opioids the company was shipping to just one store. Its pharmacy in Port Richey, Fla. (population 2,831) was ordering 3,271 bottles of oxycodone a month<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how they can even house this many bottles to be honest,\u201d Barbara Martin, whose job was to review suspicious drug orders, wrote to a colleague in a January 2011 email. The next month, the company shipped another outsized order to the same store. <\/p>\n

The email was among thousands of documents from corporations across the pharmaceutical and retail industries \u2014 internal memos, depositions, sales and shipping reports, experts\u2019 analyses, and other confidential information \u2014 filed Friday in federal court in Cleveland by lawyers for cities, towns and counties devastated by addiction. They lay out a detailed case of how diverse corporate interests \u2014 far beyond the familiar players like Purdue Pharma<\/a> \u2014 fed a deadly opioid epidemic that persisted for nearly two decades. <\/p>\n

Little-known manufacturers of generic pills, superstores like Walmart<\/strong> and chain retailers like Rite Aid also flooded the country with billions of pills, according to the filings. The devastation was so extreme that one Ohio county resorted to a mobile morgue to handle all the corpses of people who died from overdoses<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow<\/a> did a superior job of bringing this crisis to light.<\/font><\/p>\n