Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to lower drug prices and stop playing the stock market. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
Drug Prices Are Too High helps you tell your Congressfolk to expand Medicare drug price negotiation so that good Americans pay less for more drugs. Republicans in Congress have lately said, out loud, that they will repeal Medicare drug price negotiation if they win back the Presidency and both houses of Congress! How a candidate could say I will make you pay more for drugs and therefore probably make you die faster and expect that people will like him I don't know. Of course, so many seats are so gerrymandered that candidates can demand mass murder of foreigners and still win, and it sure doesn't help that Democrats never run ads about such things. Maybe they should. Maybe I should.
Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to ban themselves from owning stocks. What's that I hear? You will never get them to do something that will make them less money ha ha ha I snort at your naïveté? And yet quite a few Congressfolk – apparently even they listen to good Americans more than the cynical do! – have been proposing stock bans of varying strength these last few years, and though none have passed, that isn't a cue to throw up our hands and declare defeat, it's a cue to speak out louder. Congressfolk should never own or trade stock! It's an engraved invitation to corruption! Never let cynics tell you that you shouldn't bother doing the right thing. But remember, also, that many cynics (though not the professional ones, of course) guard painful wounds.
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