Gilbert Gutknecht: “I want to talk about one in particular. Her name is Kate Stahl. Kate Stahl is 84 years old. She is a very active member…”

“I want to talk about one in particular. Her name is Kate Stahl. Kate Stahl is 84 years old. She is a very active member of the Senior Federation back in Minnesota, and she was quoted in a recent copy of U.S. News and World Report, and the quote is, I would like nothing better than to be thrown in jail. She is a self-described drug runner. She helps people find affordable medications, in Canada principally, but she will also look other places. She goes on-line. She helps them buy drugs. She takes them up to Winnipeg to buy drugs. Kate Stahl is not a common criminal. She is an American hero. One of the statistics I have come across and one of the reasons I fight so aggressively on this issue, there was a study done recently by the Kaiser Foundation, and I checked this out because I spoke to the community pharmacists a few months ago. The study said that 29 percent of seniors say that they have had prescriptions that have gone unfilled because they could not afford them.”