Political Quotes

“I think that is just such a critical point. The pharmaceutical industry has been masquerading under something called Citizens for Better Medicare. It sounded like from the news report that the gentleman from New Jersey read that the Republican candidate had been watching too many of their ads. Because they put out ads under the pretense of being for better Medicare, but the truth is that their group is really 'Citizens for Leaving Us Alone to Let Us Charge Whatever We Want to Charge.' My colleague from Texas referenced the fact that some people along the borders of America are going south or they are going north to go right across the boundary and get prescription drugs at significantly less cost, because they are sold at less cost in Mexico and in Canada. Some of those prescription drugs are made right here in the United States, and they are made and sold by our manufacturers in the pharmaceutical industry for less in Mexico and Canada than they are sold to our seniors here. They give them maybe as good a deal in Mexico or Canada as they will give a dog here in the United States. And to be sure, the prices that our uninsured seniors are having to pay are the highest I think in the entire world.”