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Gilbert Gutknecht: “Again, these are not my numbers, I am not making these things up. The only thing we have done in terms of real raw…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2002
Again, these are not my numbers, I am not making these things up. The only thing we have done in terms of real raw research is we had these drugs brought in Europe, and we found out what they were in Northfield, Minnesota, for the same drugs. But the other charts came from the Life Extension Foundation. This number comes from the Congressional Budget Office, and they are the official scorekeeper of what they think things are going to cost as we go in the future. Now, they could be wrong. They could be high, they could be low. But this is their best guess in terms of how much seniors will pay for prescription drugs over the next 10 years. That is $1.8, and then a zero - zero - zero - zero - zero - zero - zero - zero - zero - zero. It is $1.8 trillion.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Discussing the projected costs of prescription drugs for seniors over the next decade.

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