Rick Allen: “Those stories are legend. I have these letters from women who say I do not want my husband to know, but I am not taking…”

“Those stories are legend. I have these letters from women who say I do not want my husband to know, but I am not taking my medication, because he is sicker than I am, and we cannot both afford to take the medications that our doctors tell us we have to take. It is a national scandal. We need to do something about it. One of the people who has been working on this now steadily for the last couple of years is the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Berry), who is a cochair with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner) and myself of the Prescription Drug Task Force in the Congress. And the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Berry) has been terrific. I thank the gentleman for his leadership on all of this.”