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Gilbert Gutknecht: “Why is it that the FDA is investigating little old ladies trying to save money on Tamoxifen? I spoke recently to the…”

On the recordJune 9, 2003
Why is it that the FDA is investigating little old ladies trying to save money on Tamoxifen? I spoke recently to the Pharmacists Association, and I asked them, how many of you have had this experience, where an elderly person comes into your pharmacy, hands you a prescription. You tell them how much this prescription is going to cost, and their head drops, and they go, oh, well, I will come back tomorrow. Because we know from research done by the Kaiser Foundation, 29 percent of seniors in America are saying that they have prescriptions that go unfilled because they cannot afford them. And the answer is, the FDA is not investigating companies that make $9 billion off of Federal taxpayer research; no, they are not investigating them, they are investigating little old ladies, treating them as common criminals.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Discussing the FDA's investigation into seniors trying to save money on medications.

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