VERY SOON, TRUMP PLANS ON ROLLING OUT HIS STRATEGY TO
LOWER DRUG PRICES FOR AMERICANS WHICH IS A LOFTY GOAL,
FANTASTICAL, SOMETHING THAT I MYSELF AM VERY SUPPORTIVE OF,
EVEN CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT I THINK TROUBLE IS A COMPLETE
LETTER FAILURE AS A PRESIDENT.
WITH THAT SAID NO, HE HAS
RENEGED ON THE CAMPAIGN PROMISE INVOLVING MEDICARE BEING
ABLE TO NEGOTIATE PRICES AND LOWER THE PRICES FOR THE
GOVERNMENT BECAUSE REMEMBER, THE GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING THE MONEY
TO BUY THESE, OR SPENDING THE MONEY ON THIS PROGRAM AND THE
RECIPIENTS COULD REALLY USE SOME HELP WHEN IT COMES TO AFFORDING
SOME OF THESE DRUGS.
A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HOPE TO
THE PRESS ABOUT THIS AND SAID
THE FOLLOWING:
LET ME JUST TRANSLATE WHAT THAT MEANS.
WE ARE NOT NEGOTIATING DRUG PRICES WITH THE
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES.
SO WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO?
AGAIN, WE DO NOT KNOW SPECIFICS YET BECAUSE TRUMP HAS NOT LAID
OUT THE SPECIFICS, BUT LET ME JUST QUICKLY EXPLAIN HOW THE
PROCESS WORKS WITH MEDICARE.
SO THEY ARE PRIVATE ENTITIES AND
THEY ARE THE ONLY ONE TO DO ANY KINDS OF NEGOTIATIONS.
WHICH IS PART OF THE REASON WHY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES GET TO
CHARGE US INSANELY HIGH PRICES COMPARED TO WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES
ARE PAYING FOR.
LET ME GET TO THE CORE OF THAT THOUGH.
IF YOU ARE
CONFUSED BY THAT PROCESS, THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE SPENT $300
BILLION A YEAR ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND OVER 40% OF THAT IS
THROUGH MEDICARE AND MEDICAID.
SO IF THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO
NEGOTIATE DRUG PRICES WHICH IT SHOULD, A COULD USE IT TO OUR
BENEFIT, IT COULD USE ITS TREMENDOUS LEVERAGE OVER THE
DRUGMAKERS TO LOWER ALL OF OUR PRICES AND SAVE US TENS OF
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, BUT THE GOVERNMENT HAS UNILATERALLY
DISARMED AND SAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO NEGOTIATE, WE ARE JUST
GOING TO ALMOST LET THEM CHARGE WHATEVER THEY WANT, AND IF WE
LIVED IN A DEMOCRACY, THIS WOULD BE UNTHINKABLE AND MOST OF THE
REST OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD DOES LIVE IN DEMOCRACIES AND THEY DO
NOT ALLOW THEIR DRUG COMPANIES TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT SO THEY DO
NEGOTIATE AND THEIR DRUG PARSES ARE A LOT LOWER.
THE TRICK
ABOUT THAT IS COMING UP IN THE STORY BECAUSE THE WHOLE CELL
CELL TO THE DRUG COMPANIES IN THIS STORY IS UNREAL.
BOTTOM
LINE IS OUR COUNTRY IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, SO GEORGE BUSH MADE A
DEAL SAYING THE DRUG COMPANIES WERE THE NUMBER ONE DONORS TO
POLITICIANS.
WE WILL NOT USE OUR LEVERAGE.
WE WILL MAKE SURE
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PAY MORE FOR YOUR DRUGS THEN THEY WOULD IN
ANY OTHER COUNTRY.
BARACK OBAMA CAME INTO OFFICE AND SAID I'M
GOING TO END THAT AND HE DIDN'T BECAUSE HE ALSO TAKES DONOR
MONEY AND SO DID THE DEMOCRATS SO HE SOLD YOU OUT AND KEPT THE
DRUG COMPANIES OVERCHARGING YOU AND IT DID NOT USE THE LEVERAGE.
HIS EXCUSE WAS I HAD TO DO THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION PLAN
FOR HEALTHCARE AND I COULD NOT GET IT THROUGH UNLESS I DID
EVERYTHING THE DRUG COMPANIES WANTED.
OKAY, YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH THAT EXCUSE.
THEN TRUMP COMES IN AND WHAT DO WE WANT?
WE WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO LOWER THE DRUG PRICES SO SINCE HE IS A
SLEAZY POLITICIAN, HE KNOWS HE IS LYING.
SURE COMPANIES ARE
THE BIGGEST DONORS.
HE IS GOING TO DO WHAT THEY TELL HIM TO DO,
IT IS ALL HE CARES ABOUT THAT HE SAYS I WILL LOWER IT, I WILL
MAKE SURE THE GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATES.
THEN HE SAYS I'M
JUST KIDDING, I LIED TO YOU.
AS BLANKENSHIP WOULD SAY, I AM A
LAZY, GROSS SWAMPER.
I AM A POLITICIAN AND JUST LIKE
EVERYONE ELSE I'M GOING TO SELL YOU OUT.
I NEVER MET ANY OF IT,
DRUG COMPANIES YOU GET WHATEVER YOU WANT.
SINCE THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION IS NOT GOING TO FIGHT SO MEDICARE OR THE
GOVERNMENT CAN NEGOTIATE DRUG PRICES, WHICH THEY PLAN ON
DOING?
FIRST, TRUMP IS GOING TO DO WHAT HE USUALLY DOES.
HE IS GOING TO
TARGET OTHER COUNTRIES.
HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?
LET ME EXPLAIN.
SO HERE IS A LITTLE SUMMARY COMING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
SO
AGAIN AS ALWAYS, TRUMP IS SAYING IT IS EVERY OTHER
COUNTRIES FAULT, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE SCREWING US OVER
AND SO WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
KNOW, I KNOW YOU
THINK THAT YOU ARE THE KING OF THE UNITED STATES AND YOU DO NOT
UNDERSTAND HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY
POWER OVER ALL OF THESE OTHER COUNTRIES WHO ARE DOING THE
RIGHT THING BY THEIR CITIZENS AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY
CAN AFFORD THE PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS THAT SAVE THEIR LIVES.
IT IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE WORSE THAN THAT.
HE IS SO BEHOLDEN TO
THE DRUG COMPANIES AND GET A LOAD OF THIS TRICK.
HE SAYS NOT
ONLY AM I NOT LOWERING DRUG PRICES IN AMERICA, I AM GOING TO
DEMAND THAT OTHER COUNTRIES ALSO INCREASE THEIR DRUG PRICES.
I
AM GOING TO USE EVERY PIECE OF LEVERAGE WE HAVE TO NOT HELP YOU
BUT TO HELP THE DRUG COMPANIES OVERCHARGING OTHER COUNTRIES AS
WELL.
AND THEN, THE TRICK PART OF IT IS, THEY ARE CALLING IT
FREELOADING.
IF THEY WEREN'T PAYING SUCH A LOW PRICE, WE WOULD BE
PAYING A LOWER PRICE.
GREAT, ARE WE GOING TO?
NO, IT IS NOT GOING TO AFFECT OUR PRICES AT ALL BECAUSE I
AM NOT GOING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM.
WHY?
IT IS A DOUBLE WIN FOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES.
THEY
GET TO KEEP CHARGING MORE HERE AND THEY WILL CHARGE MORE TO
FOREIGN COMPANIES OF THIS PRESSURE FROM TRUMP WORKS AND HE
GETS TO SAY, IT IS THEIR FAULT, THE BAD COUNTRIES.
MEANWHILE, MY PRECIOUS DONORS.
WHAT A SCUMBAG OF A POLITICIAN.
YEAH.
SO THIS IS KIND OF LIKE HOW MEXICO IS SUPPOSED TO PAY
FOR THE WALL, RIGHT?
AT THIS POINT, IT IS SUCH A BROKEN RECORD.
I DON'T
UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO TAKE THE RECORD OFF THE RECORD
PLAYER BECAUSE HIS APPEAL TO POPULISM IS CONSTANTLY PEPPERED
WITH XENOPHOBIA AND BROISM.
ALL OF THIS TALK OF THIS
DEAL AND ABOUT HOW HE IS A MASTER NEGOTIATOR AND HE IS THE
ONE WHO
CAN MAKE THE DEAL WHO COULDN'T HAPPEN BEFORE BECAUSE MOST OF
THE PEOPLE WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT POLITICIANS ARE IN
THE POCKETS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES, THAT
IS WHY WE CALL IT BIG PHARMA AND IT IS SO UNFORTUNATE TO LOAD
THIS CLAIM ON OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT HAVE ACTUALLY
NEGOTIATED SUBSIDIZED MEDICINE IN THEIR COUNTRIES.
WE HAVE HAD
MEDICAL CARE IN ANOTHER COUNTRIES, WE TALKED ABOUT IT,
WE HAVE BEEN SURPRISED AS FOREIGNERS BEING IN THESE
COUNTRIES HOW LOW DRUG PRICES ARE, WITHOUT EVEN HAVING
CITIZENSHIPS OF THESE COUNTRIES.
I WAS IN MOROCCO, DEVELOPING
COUNTRY, AND I PAID A DOLLAR OR TWO FOR ANTI-NAUSEA PILLS THAT
WOULD BE SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE.
THEY WERE PHARMACEUTICAL LEVEL,
PRESCRIPTION.
FOR A COUNTRY LIKE THAT TO ACCUSE THAT KIND OF
COMPANY FOR OUR SHAMELESS OBSEQUIOUS BUDDYING UP
TO A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY THAT ALSO, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT
THE FACT THAT WE ARE CREATING INNOVATIVE PHARMACEUTICAL
SOLUTIONS THAT ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES ARE RIPPING OFF OF US.
FOR US TO CREATE THAT KIND OF ARGUMENTS IS TO FURTHER
SUGGESTARE AND DISTANCE FROM ACTUALLY SERVING THE PEOPLE THAT
TRUMP SAID HE WAS GOING TO SERVE.
BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS,
PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD THIS, PEOPLE ON MEDICARE WHO ARE IN
NEED OF AFFORDABLE ACCESS AND ALSO, A WAY TO GET OFF THE
DEBT OF ALL OF THESE RISING MEDICAL BILLS.
YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO ASK PEOPLE, HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH YET?
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
EVERY DAY, EVERY SINGLE DAY WHEN I HEAR DONALD TRUMP SAY THE
PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION --
AS A PERSON WHO HAS TO HAVE MEDICATION AND I THINK ABOUT ALL
OF THOSE POOR PEOPLE WHO VOTED THIS ADMINISTRATION INTO OFFICE
AND SUPPORTED IT LIKE A COLD, WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO
SUFFER BEFORE YOU MAKE THE DECISION THAT THIS NEEDS TO GO?
THAT IS REALLY WHERE I AM, AND I LEARNED A NEW WORD TODAY.
I AM
EXCITED TO BE HERE.
I AM REALLY JUST THINKING, I SIT DOWN AND
STILL HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPER DONALD
TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
HAVE TO WORK WITH THEM IN MY FIELD OF COMEDY.
THEY HAVE TV SHOWS NO, THEY'RE OUT THEREAND IT IS LIKE THIS
BLIND LOYALTY.
YOU BY YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE.
MY MOM IS A
POOR WOMAN WHO IS ON MEDICARE.
I HAVE TO THINK COLLECTIVELY.
WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT EVERYBODY AND IT IS LIKE HOW MUCH MORE DO
YOU NEED TO GET POPPED BEFORE YOU SAY, THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR
ME.
ON THE OTHER HAND, WHAT MAINSTREAM MEDIA, CABLE NEWS
DOES EVERYTHING IS 50-50.
THE RIGHT WING ARE ZEALOTS, BUT THE
LEFT-WING ARE ZEALOTS.
THAT IS NOT TRUE, IT DEPENDS ON WHO YOU
WERE TALKING ABOUT.
DONALD TRUMP HAS ACTUAL FOLLOW-THROUGH
AND SAID I AM HAVING THE GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATE DRUG PRICES
WITH MEDICARE I WOULD SAY THAT IS FANTASTIC, GIVE HIM CREDIT.
PRISONERS ARE RELEASED IN NORTH KOREA, GIVE HIM CREDIT.
IF
HE GETS A PEACE DEAL IN NORTH KOREA, I WILL GIVE HIM ALL THE
CREDIT.
HE GOT US OUT OF TPP FOR THE MOMENT BEING, GIVE HIM
CREDIT.
THERE IS A PART OF THIS BILL I THINK YOU SHOULD GIVE HIM
CREDIT ON, BUT I KNOW THAT THE RIGHT-WING IS NOT GOING TO DO
THAT, NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE VIOLATES HIS PROMISES, NO MATTER
HOW MUCH THEY SEE THAT THE DRUG PRICES DID NOT ACTUALLY GO DOWN.
I THINK THE REASON WHY IT IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE I THINK THE
INDEPENDENTS CAN BE MOVED SO THE GUYS IN THE RED HAT, ALMOST
LITERALLY THEY HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED SO THEY ARE
LIKE ZOMBIES.
YOU COULD PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE AND SAY DONALD TRUMP THAT IT GOT
GOOD, I WANTED TO BE PUNCHED IN THE FACE, I LOVE BROKEN NOSES.
SNOWFLAKES, YOU DON'T LIKE BROKEN NOSES?
IF YOU REMEMBER FROM ELECTION NIGHT PRIMARY COVERAGE FROM THIS
WEEK, A VOTER IN WEST VIRGINIA SAID THAT THREE OF HIS COUSINS
HAD DIED IN THE MINING EXPLOSION THAT HAPPENED UNDER DON
BLANKENSHIP AND HE WENT TO PRISON BECAUSE HE PURPOSEFULLY
DID NOT DO THE SAFETY AND THOSE MINES THAT HE NEEDED TO.
THAT
GUY LOST THREE FAMILY MEMBERS AND VOTED FOR BLANKENSHIP AND
WHEN THEY ASKED HIM WHY THEY SAID AT LEAST HE IS AN HONEST
CROOK.
MY ANALOGY WITH THE BROKEN NOSE WAS ACTUALLY TWO
LIGHTS.
ACTUALLY IN REAL LIFE IT IS MORE SEVERE THAN THAT.
SO
THOSE MAGA ARE NEVER GOING TO BE CONVINCED BY FOR INDEPENDENCE,
PART OF THE REASON THAT SOME OF YOU VOTED FOR HIM IS BECAUSE HE
THOUGHT HE WOULD DO HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES.
YOU SAID I'M NOT LIKE
THE OTHER REPUBLICANS, I KNOW THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A
POPULAR BUT I'M GOING TO COVER EVERYBODY.
EVERYBODY IS GOING
TO HAVE THE BEST HEALTHCARE AND THAT HE NEVER DID IT.
HE SAID
HE WAS GONNA CLOSE UP A HEDGE FUND TAX LOOPHOLE AND I WAS A
GOOD THING.
I SAID IT, HE IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR,
ALL HE EVER DOES HIS LIE.
IF HE DOES THAT I WILL GIVE HIM ALL
THE CREDIT IN THE WORLD.
HE DOES TAX CUTS, NO LOOPHOLES
NEED TO BE CLOSED.
GOES ON AND ON.
IN THIS CASE IS NOT GOING
TO LOWER YOUR DRUG PRICES.
THE MAGA WILL TAKE IT BUT THE LIBERTARIANS MIGHT SAY
TURNS OUT HE'S A SLEAZY POLITICIAN.
THIS IS THE POWER OF RACISM AND WHERE INDEPENDENTS HAVE TO
SOMETIMES CONFRONT THEIR INNER RACISM THAT THEY MIGHT NOT WANT
TO CONFRONT I KNOW THAT THAT MAGA GUY HAS IT FOR SURE BUT
RACISM WELL, SORRY FOR THE USE OF WORDS, TRUMP CLASS IN SO MANY
WAYS, AS TONI MORRISON SAID IN AN INTERVIEW, RACISM THAT IS
GREATEST IN TERMS OF HOW IT WORKS IS DISTRACTING PEOPLE FROM
THE REAL WORK IN THE REAL ISSUES SO HE KNOWS THAT AND THIS IS WHY
HE IS USING THE RACE MAY CONSTANTLY OVER AND OVER AGAIN
TO ATTRACT HIS PULITZERS TO BE DISTRACTED FROM THE ACTUAL
ISSUES AT HAND SO HE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO
HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES BECAUSE HE CAN JUST BLAME IT ON ALL
THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE FREELOADING.
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, HOW DOES THAT APPLY?
YOUR DRUG PRICES ARE NOT GOING DOWN, BUT HE SAYS, IT IS THE
FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT ARE FREELOADING.
IT IS OUR DRUG
COMPANIES, IT IS NOT LIKE IT IS MEXICAN DRUG COMPANIES ARE
ARABIAN DRUG COMPANIES.
IT IS OURS AND YOU CAN NEGOTIATE WITH
THEM BUT YOU ARE CHOOSING NOT TO.
YOU ARE OUR PRESIDENT.
MEXICO, OPIOID CRISIS, IT IS OUR DRUG COMPANIES THAT ARE CAUSING
IT.
THE DRUGS ARE COMING FROM MEXICO.
NO, THEY'RE NOT COMING
FROM MEXICO.
THEY ARE BEING PRODUCED HERE IN AMERICA BY
AMERICAN COMPANIES BUT IN THAT REGARD, YOU ARE RIGHT.
HIS
FOLLOWERS HERE MEXICO AND THEY ARE LIKE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.
SOMEBODY PUNCH ME IN THE FACE AND WE WILL BLAME IT ON MEXICO.
THE FOR INDEPENDENCE, I AM HOPING THAT THEY ARE STILL
OPEN-MINDED ENOUGH, AND I BELIEVE IT, I BELIEVE THAT RACE
IS A HUGE FACTOR FOR WHATEVER PERCENTAGE OF THE COUNTRY THAT
YOU WANT TO PUT IT AT, BUT THESE ISSUES ACTUALLY AFFECT REAL
AMERICANS ARE ALSO RELEVANT TO THE INDEPENDENCE LED TO DECIDE
ELECTIONS AND SO ON THAT GROUNDS, LET ME JUST COME BACK
TO THE ONE THING I WAS GOING TO GIVE HIM CREDIT ON.
IN THIS
PROPOSAL, IF IT EVER GOES THROUGH A COUPLE OF GOOD THINGS.
IT WOULD ALLOW LOW INCOME PEOPLE ON MEDICARE TO OBTAIN
FREE GENERIC DRUGS ABOUT COPAYMENTS.
HAS TO MAKE IT
THROUGH THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, THEY WILL PROBABLY KILL THAT BUT
OKAY, IF IT DOES, THAT IS POSITIVE MOVEMENT AND ANOTHER
ONE IS A BUT OVERALL LIMIT MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES
OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
THAT WOULD ALSO BE VERY GOOD.
BY THE WAY THOUGH, WHAT IS THE UNITING THEME OF ALL OF THIS?
EVEN THOSE GOOD PROPOSALS COME FROM THE US TAXPAYERS AND THAT
IS OKAY, I AM IN FAVOR OF IT ANYWAY, BUT IT DOES NOT DO
ANYTHING TO THE DRUG COMPANIES.
THE DRUG COMPANIES STILL MAKE
THEIR MONEY, IT IS JUST WHETHER YOU PAY THEN, THE RANDOM
TAXPAYER PAYS THEM, SOMEBODY IS PAYING THEM.
THE UNITING THEME
OF ALL OF THIS IS THE DRUG COMPANIES DO EVERYTHING THEY
EVER WANTED.
IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT THAT THEY ARE THE
NUMBER ONE DONORS TO POLITICIANS.
THIS IS WHAT THEY
PAID FOR SO THEY GIVE THE POLITICIANS MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS AND IN RETURN THEY GET BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM UTAH.
I HAVE TO ADD ONE MORE THING BEFORE WE GO TO BREAK.
LOOK,
THE ADMINISTRATION IS SAYING THAT FOREIGN COUNTRIES PLACING
PRICE CONTROLS ON PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS PLACES THE BURDEN OF
FINANCING DRUG DEVELOPMENT LARGELY UN-AMERICAN PATIENTS.
NO.
IF YOU ARE PART OF A GROUP OF CORPORATIONS IN AMERICA THAT
HAS ENOUGH DISPOSABLE INCOME TO CONSTANTLY LOBBY POLITICIANS.
IN FACT, BE THE NUMBER ONE LOBBYING GROUP IN THE
COUNTRY, YOU DO NOT NEED HELP FINANCING ANYTHING.
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ARE NOT STRUGGLING TO STAY AFLOAT.
THEY ARE DOING FINEÖ, THEY ARE DOING MORE THAN FINE AND
THIS NOTION THAT AMERICANS REALLY HAVE TO SUPPORT
THESE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES BECAUSE THESE FOREIGN
COUNTRIES ARE NOT PAYING ENOUGH OF THE DRUGS IS JUST RIDICULOUS.
TO FINISH UP ON THAT, IF FOR EXAMPLE A PARTICLE COMPANY WAS
NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY IN FRANCE OR MEXICO OR CANADA, THEY
WOULD STOP SELLING DRUGS THERE.
THEY STILL MAKE A PROFIT, THAT
IS WHY THEY SELL IT THERE.
THE WHOLE THING IS A TOTAL LIE.
THEY MAKE A PROFIT THERE.
HERE THEY MAKE A KILLING.
BECAUSE
UNLIKE IN CANADA AND FRANCE, THEY HAVE BOUGHT OFF OUR
GOVERNMENT AND WE ALLOW THEM TO. AND THEY BOUGHT BUSH, THEY
BOUGHT OBAMA, AND NOW THEY BOUGHT TRUMP LOCK, STOCK, AND
BARREL.
THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE GOT A CORRUPT, TERRIBLE
POLITICIAN.
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