Political Quotes

“Before I leave, I wanted to add one other point. I think the gentleman explained this, and I had not even known this, but on Tuesday night, the pharmacies across America get the new prices coming in over their fax machines. Going to that other chart, this year we are expecting pharmaceutical products will go up 18 percent. Inflation will be at 2 percent. So if you go to your pharmacy, to all the people who may be watching, and you go to fill your prescription, then you wonder why the same prescription that 3 months ago if you get a 3-month supply or a month ago cost 21 bucks or 50 bucks and this month, the same drug, nothing changed, nothing, but it is up $12, it is all because of that chart. You can go ask your pharmacist if you have time on your hands on Wednesday how much they priced up all the products. Unfortunately, what the pharmaceutical companies have done, we just talked about it, they game the tax laws. Again, no criticism, but they have gamed the patent laws in this country, they are gaming the legislation on prescription drugs, and what they decided to do was price up the pharmaceutical products right before this discount card is introduced.”