Rick Allen: “I think back to the first study that was done in my district in Maine in July of 1998, which showed that seniors, on…”

“I think back to the first study that was done in my district in Maine in July of 1998, which showed that seniors, on average, pay twice as much for their medication as the drug companies' best customers, the big hospitals, the HMOs and the Federal Government itself, through Medicaid or through the VA. We have been back over and over again. Most recently, on April 26, a number of us did another study, held events around the country, because we know that the only way we can break through the clutter of all the other news and all of the things that Americans have going on in their lives to get this message home is to do coordinated events and try to get the message home. What I did in Maine was take another look at this problem of price discrimination. What I did was to do a breast cancer study, to look at the 5 drugs that are most commonly prescribed in Maine to deal with women, to help women who have breast cancer.”