Political Quotes

“I will be very brief. I wanted to come to the floor to thank all of my colleagues for coming to the floor and talking about this issue. Our Democratic caucus has been persistent champions in the fight to lower drug costs for Americans. I want to thank Senator Klobuchar, who has been such a leader on this issue, for calling us together tonight. It was said year after year, decade after decade: They are never going to take on the big drug companies. They are never going to get those high costs--in some cases, outrageously high costs--down. But last summer, we did, and we won. Now millions of Americans are seeing their drug costs go down as the Inflation Reduction Act goes into effect. The 10 prescription drugs which my colleagues have talked about are not drugs used by a rare few but are used by millions that affect so many different illnesses, and they will treat things like diabetes and heart failure and cancer and kidney disease and blood clots and more. The pain you feel when you talk to a parent who says: My child has been diagnosed with cancer, but it costs $1,000 a month for the drug, and I can't afford it. What am I going to do? What pain. Well, that pain is going to be greatly reduced in hundreds of thousands of cases now that we have done this. We are not stopping. We are going to keep going. It is a huge deal. We are capping the price of insulin at $35. We did it for seniors on Medicare, and now we are going to fight to get it for everybody else.…”