Gilbert Gutknecht: “No. I have plenty of information, but the interesting thing about these charts and these comparisons, if people doubt…”

“No. I have plenty of information, but the interesting thing about these charts and these comparisons, if people doubt what they paid for these drugs, we have the receipts. So we can literally go through and say, yes, this is what we paid for Tamoxifen, $59.05 in Germany, and we did not have a special discount card. We are not German citizens; so we were not going in for socialized medicine. These are drugs that we just bought off the shelf or from the pharmacist at the Munich airport. So it is not as if they are being subsidized by the German Government. The truth is they are being subsidized by us, and what I have always said is that Americans should be prepared and we are prepared and willing. I think most Americans are willing to subsidize the research for these miracle drugs. In fact, I think we are willing to subsidize people in developing countries like Sub-Saharan Africa, but we should not have to subsidize the starving Swiss. And finally, let me just make one last point, and I will yield back. I am with the gentleman. I happen to be a Republican. The gentleman is a Democrat, but we are both capitalists. We both understand that there is nothing wrong with the word ``profit,'' but there is something wrong with the word ``profiteer,'' and there is growing evidence now that the big pharmaceutical companies are actually spending more on marketing and advertising than they are on basic research.”