it's not just the healthcare issue not

just an economic issue it is a very

profound moral picture it is whether or

not people in our country should get

sicker than they should get or even die

because they don't have enough money to

pay the prices that the pharmaceutical

industry is charging us that's the issue

and I say it is time for the

pharmaceutical industry to stop whipping

off the people of this country they tell

you good for a first got deeply involved

in this issue in the late nineteen

nineties i took a bus load of the

monitors across the Canadian border boy

prescription drugs and the reason i did

in the people who with the on the bus

were mostly women who are struggling

with breast cancer working-class women

fighting for their lives and we went to

Montreal and we had arranged this and

they walked into a drugstore in the Lord

the medicine that they needed the same

exact medicine they were buying in

vermont in the united states they bought

it in canada for one-tenth of the rights

and present and i will never forget

years coming down the cheeks of some of

these women who were struggling for

their lives and we're having a hard time

paying for the medicine they desperately

needed but it was not just them at that

point right now if you want to hear

about crazy and you want to hear about

this functionality

in America today one out of five people

who go to their doctors office and get a

prescription are unable to afford to buy

prescription talk about brayden so sick

for the nurses well understand it they

go to the doctor or nurse because

they're sick they get a prescription and

they can't even afford to fill in my

state all over this country there are

hundreds of thousands of elderly people

who are cutting their bills in half

which is a bad thing to do because they

cannot afford to buy the medicine that

they need our job is to tell the

pharmaceutical industry that we will not

continue to pay by far the highest

prices in the world for prescription

drugs and it's not just landed on its

all the year and the reason that they're

drug prices are low is because in every

instance the government's negotiate

prices with the drug companies now what

we've got in this country is really like

incredible you could walk in to reform

the sea tomorrow and find out that the

medicine you've been using what what the

years that doubled or tripled in price

there is no legislation there is no

language anywhere which prevents the

drug companies from Georgia got any rice

and what

and that is precisely what they are

doing

the reality today is that the

pharmaceutical industry has become a

major health hazard to the American 2003

total spending on prescription drugs in

our country has more than doubled more

than double now here is maybe the most

important boy in that is while millions

of Americans cannot afford the medicine

they desperately need while some of them

dying others become sicker last year the

five major drug companies may fish a

billion dollars in profit and the top

executives of the Ted watches drug

companies make collectively over 300

million dollars in compensation so

americans die or get sick because I

can't afford the medicine they need drug

companies receive you prophets and the

CEOs all those companies get outrageous

compensation packages now why did this

happen

well I'll tell you exactly why it

happens it happens because the

pharmaceutical industry is one of the

most powerful forces in Washington DC

since nineteen hey listen but it's

really quite incredible since nineteen

if they have been three billion dollars

in lobbying and have made hundreds of

millions of dollars in campaign

contributions they part they have 1400

paid lobbyists in washington DC right

now working day and night to make sure

that we pay outrageously high prices for

the medicine that we need

let me just give you a few examples of

the greed of the pharmaceutical industry

know what to tell you something are

getting nervous

tell you a very funny story you are

thinking about their in my god and the

reason that they are nervous is they

understand that we win here in

California but the states in the country

will be following very very quickly and

when we talk about a corrupt campaign

finances the man you are up against that

right now

my understanding is that the

pharmaceutical industry is prepared to

spend up to 100 million dollars

defeat proposition 61

well I could spend all of the money that

they want for the people on the sand

there were a bunch of books but you know

it's just something think what you have

elderly people putting their medicine

and happy can't afford the medicine

money and they have a hundred million

dollars that have been the line

cbs4 in California now when you defeat

the pharmaceutical industry here you are

not always going to send a profound

message all across this country that

we're flying of their greed and of their

profiteering you're going to be even

more than that you're going to show that

the American people are prepared to

stand up the powerful corporations will

try the body feel like

now i just learned something a couple of

hours ago with my look was kind of funny

we sent out a tweet my Semel with talked

about the green of the pharmaceutical

industry we particularly spoke about a

company called area who is charging

something like a hundred and ninety-nine

thousand of the year

leukemia treatment

well if that we sent that tweet out

their stuff started to grab an American

and thoughtful with some 387 minimal

that levy silicon this is a industry

which is explored the really greeting an

industry that we have got to save

optical industry that has got to provide

the medicine that we desperately need

not only here in this country but for

people all over the world need a

portable businesses let me just give you

a few examples only a few but some of

the outrages they're going on within the

pharmaceutical industry milan increase

the price of epi pens by some five

hundred percent since 2009 $57 the more

than six hundred dollars turi

pharmaceuticals increase the price of

daraprim by 5,000% overnight from

thirteen dollars and fifty cents the 750

dollars

brought one Hill value increase the

price of the lead poisoning drug known

as calcium EDTA by twenty-seven hundred

percent in a single year from 7,000 to

$OPERAND twenty-seven thousand dollars

these people believe that they have the

right to talk shows any place that they

can its mooring the suffering that takes

place where people cannot afford that

medicine now let me give you another

example comparing prices i live 50 miles

away from the canadian oil in the United

States it cause 730 dollars for a 90-day

supply of crystal which is used to treat

high cholesterol or just a hundred and

sixty dollars in Canada nexium 736

dollars of the United States 214 dollars

in capital celebrates 895 dollars in the

United States 212 dollars in Canada this

is the same exact medicine in the same

exact model made by the same exact

companies so what we have to say is

enough is

it's not called me about people becoming

needlessly sick or time it is about

people having to go deeply in debt to

purchase the drugs they need to say a

life it is about taxpayers spending

unnecessary amount of money blind the

billions for Medicaid or Medicare

because the drug companies charge us

such very light writing about health

care . going up because of the

outrageously high prices for the

pharmaceutical industry so here we are

in california and here you have one for

the most significant opposition in the

country today pharmaceutical industry

now they are going to where they're

going to say whatever they have to say

whatever why's that they can come up

with the right of frightened people into

my body airways with 30 seconds but the

people accountable in your spot and they

understand that there must be a reason

why the drug companies offer Panthers

spend up to a hundred million dollars

and that reason is that if you beat that

here we're going to put them on the

defensive with all of applause

hope Medical all the bush

let me a call

p 1 saying all white drug prices are

doing the seniors let me thank my

brother insisted it the natural their

sins or not you would like to thank God

want to have to be treated nations was

so much circle than the otherwise should

be let me thank all of my friends and

all of you brothers and sisters we are

going to take on the pharmaceutical

industry we're going to take on you

should hit the three we're going to take

on a co-op campaign finance system which

is allowing the top companies to spend

unlimited something money so that they

can continue with all our people was

consistent will quad on this issue we

need to help the environment shin is

looking at powerful more let's go

forward again