Gilbert Gutknecht: “If this is safe enough for the U.S. Treasury, this is the same company that has developed these technologies to make…”

“If this is safe enough for the U.S. Treasury, this is the same company that has developed these technologies to make counterfeit-proof packaging. I will be introducing a bill sometime in the next week; and I am trying to get, I hope, hundreds of my colleagues to vote for it. In fact, the last time we had a vote on this issue of opening up markets, we got 323 votes here in the House. The House has spoken fairly clearly that we want Americans to have access to world-class drugs at world market prices. But if this technology is good enough for the U.S. Treasury, if they can produce technology to make counterfeit-proof packaging for the entertainment industry, for the video game industry, they certainly can and they are making packaging for the pharmaceutical industry. As a matter of fact, I think there are four or five of the companies that are already using this technology. It goes even further. Last week, I was at a demonstration, and this is a little vial, and I do not expect anybody to see this, because I can barely see it looking at it here. But inside this vial there are 150 tiny, tiny, almost nanocomputer chips. The interesting thing is this is the next UPC code. They can literally now embed these chips in packaging, and these chips are bringing the cost down to probably less than a nickel apiece.”