“Problem” Government Just Got Big Pharma to Drop Insulin Costs

Ted Millar
2 min readMar 21, 2023
Photo by Mykenzie Johnson on Unsplash

On January 20, 1981, president Ronald Reagan proclaimed during his inaugural speech that government is not the solution to our problems; “government is the problem.”

Those four words kicked off decades of libertarian, aka “neoliberal,” policies successful in convincing large swathes of Americans that government is incapable of doing anything positive, and…

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Ted Millar

Ted Millar is a teacher, poet, and political writer for The Left Place blog on Substack: https://theleftplace.substack.com/. Twitter: @tedmillar