Jun 12, 2003
Longer than I want to remember. Actually I got started with this about 5 years ago. I always tell people that I have moved from fan to fanatic. Winston Churchill said a fanatic is one that cannot change his mind and will not change the…
Gilbert Gutknecht
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Jun 12, 2003
Kate Stahl is a true American patriot. Once in a while you meet some people like this; and you just say again, as Ronald Reagan said, people who say there are no more American heroes, they do not know where to look. We met an American hero…
Jun 12, 2003
Well, the real bottom line is virtually every other company has to compete in a world marketplace. What we are saying is let markets work. Open up the markets. Finally, we are all concerned about safety. But this is a counterfeit-proof…
Jun 12, 2003
It would be over $100. The same steak that you could get in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for $15 or the same steak that I could get in Rochester, Minnesota, for $15, you would pay over $100 in Tokyo. Another example is blue jeans in the former…
Jun 12, 2003
Absolutely. Let me just talk about this Glucophage. This package of Glucophage in the United States sells for over $100. We bought it in Munich, Germany for $5. $5.
Jun 12, 2003
Wrong again. Let me give you an example. This is a drug that my 85-year-old father takes. It is called Coumadin. Coumadin is a wonderful drug. It actually was developed at the University of Wisconsin.
Jun 12, 2003
We are absorbing that cost, and I think when we talked about this at a conference today, what somebody said is we are subsidizing the rest of the world in health care and prescription drugs, and we are subsidizing, I think your term is…
Jun 12, 2003
I must admit I am using it as an example because it is probably the most egregious example, with the possible exception of Tamoxifen, which the taxpayers paid for.
Jun 12, 2003
We import in the United States thousands and thousands of tons of fruits and vegetables and meats. As a matter of fact, this year we will import 318,000 tons of plantains. If we can safely import 318,000 tons of plantains, we can surely…
Jun 12, 2003
We understand there is a cost for research. We understand we have to pay that $3.9 billion that one of the big pharmaceutical companies will spend this year on advertising and marketing. We understand that has to be paid. We are willing to…
Jun 12, 2003
Warfarin, Coumadin, developed at the University of Wisconsin. The price here in the United States, about $84 for this package. The price in Canada, only $25. But here is the real kicker. Over in Europe they buy this same drug, as a matter…
Jun 12, 2003
Wrong again. They treat Kate Stahl and literally almost a million, or more than a million, Americans just like her, they treat her like a common criminal. This is an 84-year-old grandmother who is only doing this to try and save her…
Jun 12, 2003
I rise again tonight to talk about the high cost that Americans pay for prescription drugs. I am so lucky. Today I got to spend a good part of my day with a true American hero. Her name is Kate Stahl. For Members who have not seen it, I…
Jun 12, 2003
That is the point. If we are going to have a prescription drug benefit for seniors, which I think virtually everyone agrees we should, we ought to first of all deal with the issue of affordability. Because just shifting the responsibility…
Jun 12, 2003
Absolutely. The time is now. You mentioned in coming from Michigan, General Motors has been a fabulous employer. Not only in the State of Michigan but for suppliers all over the world. The interesting thing is General Motors, I met with a…
Jun 12, 2003
There are only 600 FDA-approved facilities that make prescription drugs in the world. They have to be made in an FDA-approved facility. So, yes, these drugs essentially, this probably came out of a plant in the United States. Or it may…
Jun 11, 2003
we have heard the word ``outrage'' used several times on the House floor, and I rise tonight to talk about the outrageous prices that American consumers pay for prescription drugs. And I have behind me a chart, and I apologize for those…
Jun 10, 2003
And there are published reports that the president of SmithKline Beecham 2 years ago earned over $200 million.
Jun 10, 2003
this issue about what Americans pay for prescription drugs is not a matter of right versus left, it is right versus wrong. I think anybody who spends any time at all on this issue realizes it is wrong to force American consumers to pay the…
Jun 9, 2003
Well, the FDA is also responsible for all of the fruits and vegetables coming into the country. The issue they raise is safety, yet we import 318,000 tons of plantains that come into our borders, through our borders every year, and we do…
Jun 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…
Jun 9, 2003
once again I rise tonight to talk about the high cost of prescription drugs here in the United States, and especially the high cost relative to what the rest of the industrialized world pays for the same drugs. I have told this story to…
Jun 5, 2003
I rise again to speak to the House today about the cost of prescription drugs here in the United States, particularly relative to the rest of the world. Mark Twain once was talking about facts, and he said you can ignore the facts, you can…
Jun 4, 2003
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…
Jun 3, 2003
it was Will Rogers who said, ``All I know is what I read in the newspapers,'' and I was reading yesterday's Wall Street Journal, and I would invite my colleagues to read the Wall Street Journal of yesterday, as well, because there is a…
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