If Joe Biden wins, Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, facing a primary challenge from @JessforDelaware tomorrow, is tipped to play a leading role in shaping his agenda. Here's a brief history of Coons's meritorious service on behalf of the downtrodden executives of big pharma companies:
Under Trump, Coons played a leading role in killing Amy Klobuchar & Bernie Sanders' attempt to allow importation of cheaper drugs, + confirming Trump's pharma executive HHS secretary.
Most important has been Coons's work in helping tilt patent law towards big corporations and to defend big pharma's patent abuse. This incl. a currently stalled bill to overturn Supreme Court decisions that had barred the patenting of genes, written with the help of industry
More than campaign donations, Coons is arguably driven more by a soft corporatist ideology that views government's chief role in the economic lives of its people as bending over backwards to grease the wheels of big business.
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