Sher­rod Brown says Big Phar­ma is price goug­ing — the indus­try has giv­en him $1.4 mil­lion

To Sen. Sher­rod Brown (D‑OH), Big Phar­ma is jack­ing up prices for life-sav­ing drugs to enrich its cor­po­rate exec­u­tives. Now, as the Ohio Demo­c­rat seeks a fourth term in 2024, he is one of the top recip­i­ents of dona­tions among sen­a­tors from the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try — includ­ing com­pa­nies being accused in court of inflat­ing the cost of insulin.
Brown’s cam­paign has accept­ed more than $1.4 mil­lion since 2006 from phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies and employ­ees, with $210,000 of that sum flood­ing in this cur­rent elec­tion cycle. His cam­paign and lead­er­ship PAC have also tak­en hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars in recent years from lob­by­ists for the indus­try, accord­ing to Fed­er­al Elec­tion Com­mis­sion fil­ings. At the same time, Brown posi­tions him­self as a staunch foe of Big Phar­ma, which he blames …