$17 million for Heather, $200,000 for
dad Joe Manchin
Mylan, the big pharma firm whose CEO
is Heather Bresch, has donated nearly $200,000 to the campaign of her father, Joe Manchin, U.S.
Senator from West Virginia.
Farmington native Manchin has been one of Mylan’s staunchest defenders in
Congress, even asking his colleagues to be “open-minded” in their investigation
into his daughter’s skyrocketing EpiPen prices . . . 400% since 2007 at $600
for ONE dose.
This for a drug that the U.S. government developed so Mylan got
it without spending any money on research and development.
Mylan has kicked in $51,250 in the first quarter alone to Manchin’s
reelection campaign.
Heather’s salary rose from $2.4 million to $19 million. Buy-or-die EpiPens,
which treat severe allergic reactions, particularly in children, paid for that
since it brings $1 billion a year to Mylan.
To help her daughter, her mother, Gayle Manchin, as head of the National
Association of State Boards of Education in 2012, spearheaded a push to require
states to purchase the EpiPens.
The whole family is involved in raking in money from insurance and the parents of children who don't want their kids to die.
