Bernie Sanders: Trump Is President Because Media Ignores Reality Of Poverty In America

[Uncle Joe]

33. They have the exact same drugs at a fraction of the cost.

Bernie even took a group of breast cancer patients to Canada so they afford to get their medicine.

The prescription drug cost hike by Turing Pharmaceuticals from $13.50 to $750 a tablet for Daraprim — a 62-year-old drug treating deadly parasitic infections common among AIDS patients — sparked widespread outrage against the company’s Founder and CEO Martin Shkreli. In response, Mr. Shkreli caved to the pressure of criticisms and announced the cost would be lowered to something more affordable.

Pharmaceutical price gouging is nothing new. A 2001 New York Times article exemplifies Claritin as just one of the drugs abused by the industry to increase profits. Despite working less than half the time in clinical studies, and costing on average $80 per prescription, Claritin is “the most profitable antihistamine of all time, with annual sales of more than $2 billion.” The drug is sold over the counter outside the U.S. from $10 to $15.

For years, the major proponent against pharmaceutical price gouging has been U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who in 2007 spoke on the senate floor about a bus trip he took with a group of women from Vermont to Canada to purchase affordable medicine for breast cancer.

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"I will never forget the look on the faces of those women who were struggling for their lives when they bought breast cancer medicine at 10 percent of the cost they were paying in the state of Vermont. The drug was Tamoxifen, a widely prescribed drug for those people who are struggling with breast cancer,” said Senator Sanders. “These women walked in fighting for their lives, many of whom did not have a lot of money. They walked in there and they could not believe, literally could not believe, the cost of that medicine which they needed to keep them alive.”

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https://observer.com/2015/10/bernie-sanders-and-the-war-on-rising-prescription-drug-costs/

The side effects portion of the commercials are obscured by the visuals, why not actually spell it out so the people can read it instead of speaking in a low voice while actors are romping about for distraction purposes.

You can see men and women smiling and laughing while they simultaneously tell you a list of side effects that include death and that's no joke.