Sen. Bernie Sanders Promises to Cut Prescription Drug Costs by 50 Percent
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made a campaign promise, telling CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that if he’s elected president, he plans to cut prescription drug costs in half.
“Margaret, let me make a campaign promise to you and you can repeat this, play this tape over if I'm elected president, and that is, if I am elected president, I'm going to cut prescription drug costs in this country by 50 percent so that we are not paying any more than other major countries are paying. Maybe we can do better than that,” he said.
When asked how he plans to do that, Sanders said, “Because we will look at the average costs of prescription drugs in Canada, U.K., Germany, Japan, and France. We will look at their average costs, which are 50 percent lower than they are in the United States, and we will do that.
“Margaret, let me make a campaign promise to you and you can repeat this, play this tape over if I'm elected president, and that is, if I am elected president, I'm going to cut prescription drug costs in this country by 50 percent so that we are not paying any more than other major countries are paying. Maybe we can do better than that,” he said.
When asked how he plans to do that, Sanders said, “Because we will look at the average costs of prescription drugs in Canada, U.K., Germany, Japan, and France. We will look at their average costs, which are 50 percent lower than they are in the United States, and we will do that.
“And if the pharmaceutical industry, which made 50 -- the five major companies made $50 billion in profits last year. They pay their CEOs outrageous compensation packages. If they don't like that, then we'll take a look at their patents,” he said.
Sanders said he plans to re-introduces his Medicare for all plan in this Congress in the next couple weeks.
“When we do that, what we understand is that it is just not acceptable that 30 million Americans have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and high copayments,” he said.
A NATION DIES OF OPIOID
ADDICTION
AMERICAN BIG PHARMA,
RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
“The drug epidemic is the product of capitalism and the
policies of the capitalist parties, both Democrats and
Republicans. There is, first of all, the role of the pharmaceutical
companies, which have amassed huge profits from the
deceptive marketing of opioid pain killers, which they claimed were
not addictive. Prescriptions for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin
and Vicodin skyrocketed from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in
2012. What are the numbers and profits now?
STARING IN THE FACE of
AMERICA’S UNRAVELING and the ROAD TO REVOLUTION
“It will more likely come on the heels of
economic dislocation and dwindling wealth to redistribute.”
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” -- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN
THINKER.com
"The
kind of people needed for violent change these days are living in
off-the-grid rural compounds, or the “gangster paradise” where
the businesses of drugs, guns, and prostitution are much more
lucrative than “transforming” America along Cuban lines." BRUCE
THORNTON
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There can be no resolution to any social problem confronting the
population in the United States and internationally outside of a frontal
assault on the wealth of the financial elite.
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The political system is controlled by this
social layer, which uses a portion of its economic plunder to bribe politicians
and government officials, whether Democratic or Republican.
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