Steve Lynch: “I just met with about 50 senior citizens in my district who are actually boarding a bus to go to Canada. There was a…”

“I just met with about 50 senior citizens in my district who are actually boarding a bus to go to Canada. There was a woman, Mrs. Morgan, who had just fought off her second bout with breast cancer and had been prescribed Tamoxifen, which if she bought it at her local CVS in my district, in and around the neighborhoods of Boston, it would have cost her about $1,500 per year. She was going to Canada to buy in one visit a year supply of that Tamoxifen for $155. There has got to be a better way. Even under the veterans plan, there are hard-nosed negotiations going on between the VA on behalf of veterans and the drug companies; and the drug companies while they are not happy with the negotiations as hard-nosed, they are making a profit. They are making a reasonable profit, however; and it allows the research to continue, it allows drug companies to continue to pursue what we will, I think, in a very short while see as really miraculous developments in terms of prescription drugs for many very debilitating diseases. We need to keep that initiative forward. But we also defeat our purpose if we pass a drug prescription program that seniors cannot afford, which is the great risk if the Republican plan prevails.”