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Claire McCaskill’s boldest claims about the pharmaceutical industry, annotated

  • Lev Facher

By Lev Facher Oct. 25, 2018

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Sen. McCaskill Discusses Health Care
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) Michael Thomas/Getty Images

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — What does it sound like when a political candidate makes bashing “Big Pharma” a cornerstone of her campaign?

Look no further than one of Claire McCaskill’s campaign rallies.

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Lev Facher

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Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis.

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  • So most of what Claire has claimed is based on verifiable facts, although she sems to have spiced up the vocabulary somewhat to get people’s attention.
    (Seems like a rather familiar tactic in this new era, when inflammatory rhetoric is the new normal; POTUS endorsed, so it must be OK)
    Go Claire! No wonder she is at the center of the big pharma dartboard!

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