Gilbert Gutknecht: “I rise tonight again to talk about the issue of the disparity between the price that Americans pay for prescription…”

“I rise tonight again to talk about the issue of the disparity between the price that Americans pay for prescription drugs and what the rest of the world pays for the same drugs. On several occasions I have used articles from the newspapers, whether it be the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, other newspapers, and I started many of my conversations with something that Will Rogers said so many years ago, and that is "All I know is what I read in the newspapers." Today I read in one in the publications up here on Capitol Hill a story that really surprised me, the first story that they have actually done on the whole issue of prescription drugs, and they decided to do essentially a piece that destroys the credibility of one of the groups that I have gotten much of the research information that I have gotten in the past from, and that is the Life Extension Foundation, and I want to talk about some of the numbers that they have sent me. I have never personally met anybody from Life Extension, but everything they have sent me checks out. So I have used their statistics in the past, and I will use them in the future. I have also been quoting from a book by Katharine Greider. The title of the book, and I recommend it to all of my colleagues, is "The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off America." I do not know what her philosophy is. I do not know what her politics are.”