BREAKING: Mike Rogers Just Advertised a Healthcare Plan That Doesn’t Exist
New Rogers ad promises to lower prescription drug costs — but the website directing Michiganders to his supposed plan leads to an error page
Big Pharma has poured more than $1 million into Rogers’ campaigns and political action committee
MICHIGAN – Mike Rogers has a brand-new healthcare plan. There’s just one problem: Michiganders can’t actually find it.
On Saturday, Rogers’ campaign and the NRSC began airing a new television ad in the Flint media market claiming Rogers has a plan to lower prescription drug costs. The ad prominently directs viewers to a page on Rogers’ campaign website to learn more.
But anyone who followed the link was greeted by an error page. An archived version of the website from this morning shows Rogers’ supposed healthcare plan was nowhere to be found.
And the disappearing plan isn’t the only problem with Rogers’ new ad.
In the spot, Rogers asks why prescription drugs cost less in Canada than in the United States and declares that “the pharmaceutical companies are ripping American families off.”
Mike Rogers might want to check his own voting record. During his years in Congress, Rogers repeatedly sided with the pharmaceutical industry against efforts aimed at lowering prescription drug costs:
- Rogers voted against legislation that would have allowed prescription drugs to be reimported from foreign countries like Canada, lowering costs for Americans. At the time, Rogers “repeated industry talking points” opposing the policy, warning that “unmonitored, reimported prescription drugs can and have killed American citizens.”
- Rogers repeatedly voted against allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. Rogers has said he is “passionately against” the policy and dismissed it as “sugar high politics.”
- While Rogers opposed those efforts, the pharmaceutical and health products industry poured mountains of cash into his political operation. According to the Michigan Independent, Rogers’ campaigns and political action committee have received more than $1 million from the industry since 1999.
Rogers’ botched rollout comes just days after he dodged a question about lapsed Affordable Care Act subsidies, which he has opposed extending on the campaign trail.
“Mike Rogers has taken over a million dollars from Big Pharma and spent years in Congress voting against lowering prescription drug costs,” said campaign spokesperson Cole Wozniak. “His big healthcare rollout tells voters everything they need to know: lots of promises, no plan, and a record he hopes they won’t look up. Meanwhile, Abdul is running to pass Medicare for All and has a real plan to bring down healthcare costs for all Michigan families.”
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