Kamala Harris has once again demonstrated her unwavering determination to increase government influence over the healthcare sector.
At a campaign event in 2019, the former Senator made a striking announcement that shocked many: if pharmaceutical companies resisted reducing their prices, she would “seize their patents” and enable government intervention.
This declaration not only contradicts the principles of open competition but also serves as a sobering indication of Harris’s willingness to push boundaries in her pursuit of authority.
When an audience member asked if such a move was even possible, Harris confidently replied, “Yes, we can do that!” She further challenged the crowd, stating, “The question is: ‘Do you have the will to do it’? I have the will to do it.”
WATCH:
🚨 WOW! Kamala Harris is literally threatening to unilaterally CONFISCATE citizens’ and businesses’ private property
“I will snatch their patent, so that we [the government] will take over. Yes we can do that!”
THIS IS WHAT LITERAL DICTATORS DO.
Comrade Kamala wants to turn… pic.twitter.com/fWOmXn4Teg
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 17, 2024
Washington Times reported at the time:
Ms. Harris has cosponsored legislation to butcher our patent and health care systems.
Many of the bills impose government price controls, unleashing the government’s monopsony power to dictate drug prices.
S. 3166, S. 1801, S. 1261, S. 1129, S. 981, S. 470, S. 377, S. 102 and S. 62 — all cosponsored by Ms. Harris — contain this common feature of government-controlled health systems. Those governments hold unfair advantage in “negotiations” with vendors.
Some Harris-backed legislation demands compulsory patent licensing or slashes the period of patent exclusivity — the opposite of an exclusive right. S. 4439, S. 1801, S. 377, S. 366 and S. 102 include these.
Measures such as S. 1801 and S. 97 raise risks for patients through importation schemes. Some, including S. 3163, S. 1801, S. 637 and S. 102, expropriate drug innovators’ earnings. That’s money companies use for R&D and to keep new, better treatments coming.
Ms. Harris backs “public option” and Medicare “buy-in” legislation, S. 1261, S. 981 and S. 470.
She’s an original cosponsor of the granddaddy of one-size-fits-all, government-controlled health care — Mr. Sanders’ Medicare for All Act, S. 1129.
Kamala Harris’s rhetoric flirts dangerously with authoritarianism, promoting a vision of the state wielding unchecked power in the name of the common good.
This should alarm anyone who cherishes freedom and the principles of justice. Her approach echoes that of Hugo Chavez, the communist dictator who seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry.
If Harris were to assume the presidency, it is evident that private property rights and other fundamental liberties would be directly threatened.
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Kamala Harris’s rhetoric flirts dangerously with authoritarianism, promoting a vision of the state wielding unchecked power in the name of the common good.
This should alarm anyone who cherishes freedom and the principles of justice. Her approach echoes that of Hugo Chavez, the communist dictator who seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry.