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Karen Thurman: “Mr. Speaker, I want the people of the fifth district's voices to be heard tonight, too. First of all, I want to say that…”

On the recordJune 27, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I want the people of the fifth district's voices to be heard tonight, too. First of all, I want to say that this debate tonight is not about the provider givebacks in this bill. This debate is about the most important issue facing the American people and the issue that every Member of this Congress and including the President ran on in the last election. And let us make it clear, today I went to the Committee on Rules because the people in the fifth district said to me, we want the cost of drugs down, we are tired of seeing on the TV people going to Canada to buy their medicines cheaper, or why is it that industrialized nations, our competitors, are buying their drugs at a lesser cost? Just to give you some examples, how about Zocor? In industrialized nations their average pricing is about $65. In the fifth district, it is $104. We need to bring these costs down.
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Karen Thurman
Democratic · Florida
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Addressing the high cost of prescription drugs during a debate in Congress.

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