Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to bring attention to an urgent issue affecting all Americans. Actually, the No. 1 issue I heard about when I was home--and especially at our State fair, which, by the way, is the biggest State fair in the country because we don't count Texas because they are open for a month. But there were 2 million people, a record crowd, 1.9 million to be exact. I went out there most of the days, and I was able to talk to folks right where they were. The issue they are talking about is the high cost of prescription drugs in our country. The price of insulin has tripled in the last decade. The price of the infectious disease drug Daraprim has increased 5,000 percent overnight. The antibiotic Doxycycline went from $20 a bottle to nearly $2,000 a bottle in just 6 months. Of course, the price for an EpiPen--which received so much attention over the last few weeks, which is used to treat life- threatening allergies, my daughter carries one wherever she goes--shot up nearly 500 percent since 2007. It seems every week we hear another disturbing report of drug companies focused on profits. According to a 2016 Reuters report, prices for 4 of the Nation's top 10 drugs increased more than 100 percent since 2011. The report also shows that sales for those 10 drugs went up 44 percent between 2011 and 2014, even though they were prescribed 22 percent less. I continue to hear from people across my State and the Nation about the burdensome cost of prescription drugs.…”