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so in recent times in the past couple years there's been mole spore meningitis
outbreaks including a relatively big one that killed sixty one people
when health officials traced back to the origins of the meningitis outbreak they
found out it came from but what's called pharmaceutical com pounding facilities
now what's really interesting about these facilities is that they exist
underarm massive loophole
and a low poll says that it's not the same as the place where they actually
make the medication make the prescription pills
and the place where they do make the medication prescription pills is heavily
regulated by the f_d_a_ to make sure they meet
certain standards
what the compound in facility is as where they take a different ingredients
and they put them together to make uh... other
forms of prescription drugs
so
legally speaking it's actually slightly different
type of facility
that is not regulated by the f_d_a_ because of
loopholes lobbied for
by the pharmaceutical industry
the meningitis outbreak was coming from the compound ing facilities
so when the f_d_a_ found out about that they said okay simple we know the answer
the problem is
we just need to hat be granted the regulatory authority
going there and deal with it and regulate them just like there any other
pharmaceutical facility
republicans in the house of representatives responded
wound
democrats were absolutely floored by that the other way way is a
understanding against
uh... you know uh... regulation if you think it'll certain industries are
over-regulated or in the case may be
but in this case
we know that certain facilities were unregulated and dirty there were there
was no golden some of these facilities
they were incredibly dirty and that's what was causing the meningitis outbreak
they say well you know the problem is we don't dancers
how could you not bogged down in this
how could you not be on our side with that's right
so that larger than the house republican you're gonna love this
they said
well the f_d_a_ exists and the problem started in the first place
so the f_d_a_ can't be the answer
w jack as we just told you they don't have to they haven't had the regulatory
authority to go into the compound in facility liggett's any other type of
facility
so the f_d_a_ didn't go in there and and check everything and make sure they were
up to part up to standards
singers as well
the house republicans are so extreme on this issue
they lost willmar alexander
a republican senator this is a guy
who had already in the past
that we should abolish the minimum wage
wording it does god and you weren't
here liberally so far removed from what we can even see it
but even he was like kamau
what are you serious
all you needed the f_d_a_ to go in there makes of what do you crazy guys will be
out of your minds
i tell you this whole story
to explain to you
just how crazy and corrupt or government is
to add on top of it the only reason why this is allowed to happen
is because the republicans gerrymandered in the last election
the democrats one by one point eight million votes in the house of
representatives
they one
but they don't have a majority
because the republicans gerrymandered districts in their favor
so now
the corrupt republicans in the house who accept money from former sobel companies
and that's probably why they're actually against
but this regulation because they're just doing the bidding
of the people paid them
they're the ones that are calling the shots
horrendous stories