Political Quotes

“I urge you to send me the Senate legislation to let wholesalers and pharmacists bring affordable prescription drugs to the neighborhoods where our seniors live. That proposal was passed by the Senate a couple of months ago as an amendment to the appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture. It is one of two or three ways that I have determined to be appropriate to reduce the cost of prescription drugs--not just to some Americans, not just to seniors, not just to low-income seniors, but to all Americans--by ending, or at least arresting, the outrageous discrimination that is being practiced by American pharmaceutical manufacturing concerns that are benefiting from American research and development aspects, benefiting from the research paid for by the people of the United States through the National Institutes of Health, but still discriminating against American purchasers by charging them far more--sometimes more than twice as much--for prescription drugs than they do for the identical prescription drugs in Canada, in the United Kingdom, in Germany, New Mexico, and elsewhere around the world.”