There isn't a single drug sold in America that isn't price gouged as far as I'm concerned. Consumers may not realize it because their insurance is paying for it, but this system is entirely broken from the ground up.
@@jimmckee2940 Maybe if you opened your ears to what the man is saying you would understand. I know his speech isnt stimulating enough for your attention driven brain to actually listen attentively but he is saying what a lot of people have been trying to say for a while. And you wanna know the worst part? Everything Bernie says falls on deaf ears because the only thing that matters to 90% of people in government is money and how they can make more of it and take advantage of it. This man is standing alone challenging multi-billion dollar companies in front of an indifferent group of politicians and you're questioning his contributions? Sad times we live in indeed.
@@jimmckee2940 Hard to get anything done when a majority of the people he is speaking to are either indifferent or outright opposing the information and solutions he puts forth.
There is so much money that American taxpayers are putting towards these two drugs is unbelievably ridiculous talking about the amount of cash that covers all other prescriptions practically tied with just the cost of these two incredibly horrific on the American people😢🎭
"PBMs - Pharmacy Benefit Managers are third party companies that function as intermediaries between insurance providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers." Why the heck do these companies even exist?
Thank goodness for Senator Sanders, who will ever take his place? What other congressman cares for the common man. He works constantly for those of us who cannot speak with knowledge for ourselves one the many subjects that effect our everyday welfare...I honor you Sir, please continue to represent your fellow Americans...
When you let politicians invest in pharmaceutical companies you get a conflict of interest if your a senator who owns stock in Ozempic what do you think your vote is going to be. GREED!!! Speaking of Ozempic my Doctor wants me to start I said no I can’t afford it and I have insurance but the co-pay is almost 500 dollars so no. No thanks I just better start eating right. 🥦. 😎
AND HOUSING. AND THE PRICE OF FOOD. AND INSURANCE. AND CHILDCARE. AND AND AND AND AND....gosh...I guess corporations have been given the green light decades ago by those seated in Congress to PRICE GOUGE AS THEY SO CHOOSE WITHOUT ANY ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER.
Not far in yet, but, I grew up in Denmark and i believe that we should do our utmost to make sure that everyone can get a drug that we have and they need. It is just the common decency that my mom and my people instilled in me. If Novo Nordisk doesn't agree, I hope you will at least know that it isn't something all of us agree with. ETA: Thank you for holding them and us accountable, Berney.
THINK. Who can afford the high education it take to know what it takes to make a miracle drug? People who have the money to pay for it. Companies need money to pay enough to lure them to work for them, they need to have the best equipment, the best engineers, the cleanest labs, the best conditions. The R&D and Manufacturers should be paid fairly for their product. What I don't understand is why the "store", (the PBM's, the CVS and the insurance companies), who need little to operate, who didn't do sheet , wants to get such a big cut. We should be able to buy direct from the manufacturer
@@almondflour4785 No one said to do it for free as i am a highly educated person but i do not need millions and worry about stock share to make me interested to do my job. highly educated people are supposed to be more humble with sense of betterment of the world around you.
Just yesterday I had to choose the medications I could afford while at the pharmacy. Forget the affordable drug arguments for citizens as you are currently. Its clearly Not working. Allow us to purchase medicine from other countries!
The Trulicity i use costs $1500 a month, or 18K a year.... So long as drug companies and wall street are allowed to solicit congress with money, I don't expect for prices like these to ever change. Edit: Most research and development costs are directly subsidized by the US tax payer, specifically to help reduce costs. Unfortunately, firms have decided to take advantage of the public and price gouge Americans regardless.
Oh Dear Senator Braun, you were so close! You should have pressed with a ballpark estimate, calculated $240 USD revenue, and asked whether it was close. He knows the number! Why didn’t you press!
So, let me get this right: the Rich have access to this and many other "Expensive" drugs, and if the price is lowered, they get a better deal? Ok. Just wanted to be sure, lol. I get the idea of making sure things are ok to pass on/over, but hoarders make that difficult. IDK.
To some extent, the pharma companies are gouging prices unfairly, especially in the USA, where it appears profits are subsidizing r&d globally. The USA Healthcare system seems to be the biggestvfactor though, as it allows this and many other instances of ripping off patients. This hearing really needed more visuals to transparently show where the drug price money goes, then have a comparable set of visuals to see how this differs in another country. Hopefully the senate is able to work out some of the issues after this hearing
I have to state one point that Mr. Cassidy pointed out. He spoke about the motivation for creating drugs is solely based on money. I have to disagree with that, as I believe Michael J. Fox would tell you the motivation comes from a passionate need to fix something, and sure you would expect to be compensated and recoup your expenses, that innovation is driven by need and solving a problem.
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My Dapagliflozin,Ezetimbe, Losartan medications protecting my kidneys. Now Ozempic needed type 2 diabetes. My kidneys are functioning however, lining around duck thinning as I age.
25:58 There's the answer. Capitalism. If there isnt money to be made whats the point in doing or researching anything? No matter how important and/or revolutionary a product or idea is, it will never see the light of day unless people find a way to reap the profits from it. This is exactly what is wrong with our society today. We need a solution....what that solution is I have 0 idea....but shit needs to change.
Why not offer to all Nationalities same price ? Everyone needs health Insurance problem small business waiting period 90 days employee 1st paycheck deduction occurs why?
It's not nationalities, it's governments and what governments allow to be done. I bet u anything that the German healthcare system is way less shady or complex than ours.
I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 4 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967717354582 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////;&&;&;&;;&🎉😢😢😢😢;&;&&&//&..,!~~~♡♡~~~♡~~♡~•~•~•(･|.}]◤)~♡~♡~;l.i.i.i.i.i.l.|-.|-.،،[،,,,’,،،'،..-:::.،..،.ء...
sure, get as many people as possible hooked on ozempic/wegovy for life. prices will go down as more and more people will have become addicted. after statins and covid19 injectable big pharma needs a new cash cow...
There isn't a single drug sold in America that isn't price gouged as far as I'm concerned. Consumers may not realize it because their insurance is paying for it, but this system is entirely broken from the ground up.
How come Bernie doesn't start his own pharmaceutical company and sale his own medicine and he can sell for whatever price he wants
I dont think it's the corporations and Bernie knows it. It's his friends in senate and their big pockets.
the greed among the companies of big Pharma and the no suit protection given them is unconscionable
@@MartianManHunter7because he is a public oficial and his purpose to attempt to ensure we don't continue getting screwed
May you live to be a thousand, Senator.
thank you senator sanders for doing your job so effectively
@@mozhgannadjmi6623 just what has he done other than become a millionaire on the government payroll
@@jimmckee2940 hey just curious what brought you to this video
@@jimmckee2940 Maybe if you opened your ears to what the man is saying you would understand. I know his speech isnt stimulating enough for your attention driven brain to actually listen attentively but he is saying what a lot of people have been trying to say for a while.
And you wanna know the worst part? Everything Bernie says falls on deaf ears because the only thing that matters to 90% of people in government is money and how they can make more of it and take advantage of it.
This man is standing alone challenging multi-billion dollar companies in front of an indifferent group of politicians and you're questioning his contributions?
Sad times we live in indeed.
@@jimmckee2940 Hard to get anything done when a majority of the people he is speaking to are either indifferent or outright opposing the information and solutions he puts forth.
👍I am so disappointed at how these companies have been allowed to do this. It is only one of the many injustices that Americans have been suffering.
The very lucrative Medicine Industrial Complex has more lobbyists roaming the halls of Congress than ANY OTHER INDUSTRY. That's why.
There is so much money that American taxpayers are putting towards these two drugs is unbelievably ridiculous talking about the amount of cash that covers all other prescriptions practically tied with just the cost of these two incredibly horrific on the American people😢🎭
Richest country in the world is dumping patients on the streets.
"PBMs - Pharmacy Benefit Managers are third party companies that function as intermediaries between insurance providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers."
Why the heck do these companies even exist?
Tell 'em Bernie
GO SENATOR SANDERS....A TRUE AMERICAN.... FOR THE PEOPLE....💙💙💙💙💙💙
Thank goodness for Senator Sanders, who will ever take his place? What other congressman cares for the common man. He works constantly for those of us who cannot speak with knowledge for ourselves one the many subjects that effect our everyday welfare...I honor you Sir, please continue to represent your fellow Americans...
Thank you Bernie Sanders
I should move to Vermont to vote for you, stopping by Germany first.
Jorgensen basically said that minus the bs on the US side, he could fill orders at $10.80 and still turn a profit.
When you let politicians invest in pharmaceutical companies you get a conflict of interest if your a senator who owns stock in Ozempic what do you think your vote is going to be. GREED!!! Speaking of Ozempic my Doctor wants me to start I said no I can’t afford it and I have insurance but the co-pay is almost 500 dollars so no. No thanks I just better start eating right. 🥦. 😎
AND HOUSING. AND THE PRICE OF FOOD. AND INSURANCE. AND CHILDCARE. AND AND AND AND AND....gosh...I guess corporations have been given the green light decades ago by those seated in Congress to PRICE GOUGE AS THEY SO CHOOSE WITHOUT ANY ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER.
*Sanders should have been president instead of Biden*
Ah yes, if the medication company has more money, they will surely invest that in helping humanity and not easier, more rewarding stock buybacks
What will we do without him 😢
US Gov't: You make something I want, please sell it for cheap
Danish CEO: I can sell it for cheap, our agreement just has to be fair.
No deal.
☠️
Weird how every country is getting it so much cheaper than us ☠️ wild what a coincidence 😊
Not far in yet, but, I grew up in Denmark and i believe that we should do our utmost to make sure that everyone can get a drug that we have and they need. It is just the common decency that my mom and my people instilled in me. If Novo Nordisk doesn't agree, I hope you will at least know that it isn't something all of us agree with.
ETA: Thank you for holding them and us accountable, Berney.
why do we think people are only incentivized by money to come up with invocation?
Because their CEO's are
Right, who doesn’t want to cure cancer
Because it's true.
THINK. Who can afford the high education it take to know what it takes to make a miracle drug? People who have the money to pay for it. Companies need money to pay enough to lure them to work for them, they need to have the best equipment, the best engineers, the cleanest labs, the best conditions. The R&D and Manufacturers should be paid fairly for their product. What I don't understand is why the "store", (the PBM's, the CVS and the insurance companies), who need little to operate, who didn't do sheet , wants to get such a big cut.
We should be able to buy direct from the manufacturer
@@almondflour4785 No one said to do it for free as i am a highly educated person but i do not need millions and worry about stock share to make me interested to do my job. highly educated people are supposed to be more humble with sense of betterment of the world around you.
Just yesterday I had to choose the medications I could afford while at the pharmacy. Forget the affordable drug arguments for citizens as you are currently. Its clearly Not working. Allow us to purchase medicine from other countries!
Americas health system is extremely expensive but he doesn’t have any answers
Although he has plenty of contorted, awkward BS to rationalize his cash grabbing greed.
He told you 4 times the pbm's are ripping us off
They’re all ripping us off the pbm the insurance company big pharma. Period end of sentence in no particular order
Bernie the only leader who works tirelessly for the people. 💛
The greatest president we never had 🫡
Imprison the PBM'S
It is time for ACCOUNTIBILITY!
ACCOUNTIBILITY! ACCOUNTIBILITY! ACCOUNTIBILITY!
It's Bernieeeeeeee Sanders(D)
The Trulicity i use costs $1500 a month, or 18K a year.... So long as drug companies and wall street are allowed to solicit congress with money, I don't expect for prices like these to ever change. Edit: Most research and development costs are directly subsidized by the US tax payer, specifically to help reduce costs. Unfortunately, firms have decided to take advantage of the public and price gouge Americans regardless.
Please run again
Oh Dear Senator Braun, you were so close! You should have pressed with a ballpark estimate, calculated $240 USD revenue, and asked whether it was close. He knows the number! Why didn’t you press!
So, let me get this right: the Rich have access to this and many other "Expensive" drugs, and if the price is lowered, they get a better deal? Ok. Just wanted to be sure, lol.
I get the idea of making sure things are ok to pass on/over, but hoarders make that difficult. IDK.
To some extent, the pharma companies are gouging prices unfairly, especially in the USA, where it appears profits are subsidizing r&d globally. The USA Healthcare system seems to be the biggestvfactor though, as it allows this and many other instances of ripping off patients. This hearing really needed more visuals to transparently show where the drug price money goes, then have a comparable set of visuals to see how this differs in another country. Hopefully the senate is able to work out some of the issues after this hearing
I have to state one point that Mr. Cassidy pointed out. He spoke about the motivation for creating drugs is solely based on money. I have to disagree with that, as I believe Michael J. Fox would tell you the motivation comes from a passionate need to fix something, and sure you would expect to be compensated and recoup your expenses, that innovation is driven by need and solving a problem.
Remember United Nations needs votes right to them peace now ceasefire come to an understanding and the conference room in the United Nations and United Nations conference auditoriums in New York New York City is the best place to hold this conference and then move it to Brussels and celebrate in the capital of Belgium with marijuana abundant and probably not as strong as it used to and probably not as cheap as you used to and we're looking to stop and solve that problem kind of this kind of business New York City Kings county Bellevue hospital department of corrections New York State
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My Dapagliflozin,Ezetimbe, Losartan medications protecting my kidneys. Now Ozempic needed type 2 diabetes. My kidneys are functioning however, lining around duck thinning as I age.
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There's the answer. Capitalism. If there isnt money to be made whats the point in doing or researching anything?
No matter how important and/or revolutionary a product or idea is, it will never see the light of day unless people find a way to reap the profits from it. This is exactly what is wrong with our society today.
We need a solution....what that solution is I have 0 idea....but shit needs to change.
socialism never works
Why not offer to all Nationalities same price ? Everyone needs health Insurance problem small business waiting period 90 days employee 1st paycheck deduction occurs why?
It's not nationalities, it's governments and what governments allow to be done. I bet u anything that the German healthcare system is way less shady or complex than ours.
Make them free for your citizen. This is cruel.
medicine could be coved...
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願你平安
I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 4 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967717354582 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////;&&;&;&;;&🎉😢😢😢😢;&;&&&//&..,!~~~♡♡~~~♡~~♡~•~•~•(･|.}]◤)~♡~♡~;l.i.i.i.i.i.l.|-.|-.،،[،,,,’,،،'،..-:::.،..،.ء...
Americans must to reduce yunk food, and coca cola to reduce diabetes risks that means to educate the population.
I picture this guy in a room, taste testing "Franch"
Martin Christopher Robinson Helen Hall Mark
Good meeting. What is sliding scale?
Never ran a successful business !! But he knows how to run yours
You don’t know anything about the pharmaceutical industry
4:35 start for the homies
🫂🫂
sure, get as many people as possible hooked on ozempic/wegovy for life.
prices will go down as more and more people will have become addicted.
after statins and covid19 injectable big pharma needs a new cash cow...
Found the person who has never taken this. This is not an addictive drug you goofy mfer