Jack Kingston: “I want to say as a supporter of the Gutknecht bill that this bill is about safety because it is unsafe not to take your…”

“I want to say as a supporter of the Gutknecht bill that this bill is about safety because it is unsafe not to take your medicine. If you need Glucophage, if you need Lipitor, if you need Tamoxifen, you have to get it as inexpensively as you can or you are going to be skipping your groceries to do it. What you can do is join millions of Americans and go to our biggest trade partner, Canada, and get it at 40 percent less than what we are paying now. And incidentally, in the next 10 years senior citizens alone will spend $1.8 trillion on prescription drugs. What should we do about the people who are buying these drugs from Canada? Should we arrest them now? Or since it is so unsafe, why do we not just wait for them at the hospital and then arrest them? The reality is that this right now is the domain of the border State constituents and the savvy Internet buyer. I want to support this bill so that the working people can have access at their local pharmacists to these low-cost prescription drugs. That is what this is about. Support the Gutknecht bill.”