Bernie Sanders

Now is the time to act!

The worst thing we can do is take no action and wish it were better.

I don't know how somebody who has cancer pays $150,000 for a drug.

We are spending twice as much per capita in healthcare in this country.

We need profound change in the industry and in PBMs.

That is a moral issue.

People are getting fed up with it. I got fed up with it 15 years ago.

Why are we as Americans paying the bill even though it is only 15 percent of our GDP?

We just don't want words, we want actions.

We got to make sure that Americans can afford the price of prescription drugs.

The good news is that was a result of a lot of public pressure, we have recently seen the major drug companies substantially reduce their prices, and that is good news.

In terms of insulin, let us not forget that a vial of insulin, and this is a vial of Humalog right here, costs less than $10 to manufacture, as I understand it.

Meanwhile, Eli Lilly increased the price of Humalog 34 times since 1996, from $21 to $275.

Let's be clear, this is a problem that is unique to the United States.

Let's be clear, while Americans pay outrageously high prices for prescription drugs, the pharmaceutical industry and the PBMs make enormous profits every year.

If we paid the same prices for prescription drugs as major countries around the world were paying, we could save over $1 trillion in 10 years.

I went with those people in order to purchase insulin in Canada, which they were able to do for one-tenth of the price.

They are sick and tired of paying outrageously high prices, not only for insulin, but for other products as well.

What I promised them is that they are not going to have to go to Canada or other countries to buy a lifesaving product.

1.3 million Americans in the richest country on Earth cannot afford insulin.

We end up paying the highest prices in the world for virtually every brand name prescription drug on the market.

The worst thing we can do is take no action and wish it were better.

Now is the time to act!

We clearly need revolutionary changes in the way we do prescription drugs in this country.

Why are we as Americans paying the bill even though it is only 15 percent of our GDP?