Her GOP opponent, Josh Hawley, is among the numerous Republican attorneys general suing to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
McCaskill also co-sponsored legislation recently signed into law that prohibits so-called “gag clauses” at the pharmacy counter. As the top Democrat on the Senate’s oversight committee, she’s commissioned reports about drug manufacturers hiking prices faster than inflation, distributors failing to flag suspicious shipments, and drug manufacturers misleadingly marketing painkillers. Claire McCaskill is among the lawmakers who has most aggressively shamed drug makers on two fronts: for their price hikes and for their role in the opioid crisis. Below, we round up seven other races in which the drug industry is front and center. But the Manchin-Morrisey race is one of many races - nearly all of them toss-ups - that have been dominated in some way by discussions regarding the pharmaceutical industry. Not every race pits a pharma CEO’s father against a full-blown pharma lobbyist. Morrisey’s wife, Denise, until last quarter, was also one of the top lobbyists for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a PhRMA-adjacent trade group, and she has lobbied for the drug distributor Cardinal Health. The family ties in West Virginia, however, run deep. One recent Facebook ad reads: “Patrick Morrisey was a lobbyist for opioid companies, and as attorney general he went easy on opioid companies like Cardinal Health who paid his wife to be their lobbyist.”Ī spokesman for the Manchin campaign said Mylan is a publicly traded company, while the Morrisey family “got rich working for the opioid industry.” The Senate Leadership Fund, the McConnell-aligned group, did not respond to a request for comment. The attacks are not new - in April, another Republican campaign group dispatched a man dressed as an Epipen to a Manchin photo op.ĭemocratic groups have responded in kind, focusing in particular on the drug distributors Morrisey and his wife have lobbied for. Manchin has accepted $289,300 for his campaigns from the company, whose CEO, Heather Bresch, is his daughter. LISTEN: Pharma at the ballot box, the latest Alzheimer’s argument, and truly personalized medicine Exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences Learn More
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