“The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.”
What PolitiFact found
The group of more than 1,400 lobbyists Sanders is citing includes more than just those representing drugmakers, and some of them actually support his policy.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bernie Sanders (U.S. Sen., I-Vt.) made this claim around 3 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 October 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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