Joe Biden would have rented the pharmaceutical companies

The Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, addressing a crowd at the Hyatt Park Community Center on May 4, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina.Getty Images / Sean Rayford

• Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, hailed pharmaceutical companies despite public support for initiatives to lower drug prices.

• Bloomberg said Biden had entrusted at a donor meeting to the home of David Genecov, a craniofacial surgeon in Dallas, that there were "excellent drug makers, with the exception of of some opioid groups ".

• Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Biden's 2020 Hope, referred to the comment in a statement provided to Business Insider, where he stated that he was not in agreement with Biden for congratulating the companies "greedy, corrupt and involved in pricing".
• Biden, Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren discussed the price of drugs in the September 12 presidential debate.
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Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, hailed pharmaceutical companies despite public support for initiatives to lower drug prices.

Bloomberg said Biden had entrusted at a donor meeting to the home of David Genecov, a craniofacial surgeon in Dallas, that there were "excellent drug makers, with the exception of of some opioid groups ".

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Biden's 2020 Hope, referred to the comment in a statement provided to Business Insider, where he stated that he was not in agreement with Biden for congratulating the companies "greedy, corrupt and involved in pricing".

"At a time when their behavior literally kills people every day, America needs a president who is not going to appease and compliment the pharmaceutical companies." We need a president who will Will attack the pharmaceutical industry – whether they like it or not, Sanders said in the statement. "When we beat Donald Trumpthat's exactly what we are going to do. "

The statement comes just days after Senators Biden, Sanders and Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, opposed drug prices in the Democratic presidential debate on Sept. 12.

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Sanders advocated the introduction of restrictions to reduce the power of pharmaceutical companies to reduce costs for patients. He also supports Medicare for all, which Biden had previously criticized for being too expensive.

Instead, Biden proposed to reform the Affordable Care Act, which, in the second democratic debate in July, would dictate "that it will no longer be possible to increase this price beyond cost of inflation ".