and then an energy bill with important health care provisions that my opponent opposes but that caps drug costs for seniors at $2, 000, requires medicare to negotiate. finally, finally, we overcame pharma to require medicare to negotiate prices on behalf of the american people, insulin at 35 bucks a month, and instead of the energy and climate policies that are going to be good on costs, that are gonna be good for our national security, and keeping europe in the fight against putin, and driving emissions down there s a popular bills in colorado and my opponent has said that he would, had he been in the senate, voted against every single one of them. it has been difficult to track your opponents position on abortion. two years ago, he apparently signed a petition trying to ban abortion in colorado. let s listen to what he said in your debate about
that cost for 35 bucks for kids. as i said it only cost ten bucks for that prescription to be made and packaged. drug companies are charging families more than 30 times for that drug on a monthly basis and a lot of people just can t do it. imagine i said being that mom and dad needing that insulin. i was down in virginia yesterday at a function. i met a mom who said they have to ration the insulin, i mean, it s wrong. it s not who we are. we are going to fix that as well. i promise you. bottom line this will lower energy costs as well. gas prices. i know i got criticized for going to the stockpile. guess what? gas prices are down. $1.30 a gallon. in 41 states plus the district of columbia the average gasoline price is less than $2.99.
come in? how do you sell this bill to those folks? well, good morning. it s always great to see you. i think the first thing is that the bill really will in many ways sell itself because what we are talking about is a bill that will reduce energy costs by 1,000 bucks a year for the average american family. a bill that will continue the health care subsidies instead of allowing them to expire and having families see their costs go up. and a bill that will cap the price of insulin at 35 bucks, albeit not for a couple of months, and for the first time start to allow medicare to negotiate drug prices. so i think that there are cost reduction measures in here, but probably one of the biggest selling points is the giant investment in taking on climate change. i think there isn t a community across america that hasn t seen floods and wildfires and the roads buckling and electricity
patent has run out a long time ago. i don t understand that. this is absolute heresy in my mind. we had a permit provision, democrats did to cap the price of insulin at 35 bucks not only for medicare recipients but for anyone on private insurance as well. that of course is a much, much larger group of people who would see the cost of insulin come down, and the republicans refused to go along with the provision to extend that cap on insulin to a larger group of people. now of course i should remind people that not a single republican voted for any of this. not a single republican wants to cut health care costs for americans or energy costs for americans, or climate change, this was passed on the democratic only vote. but it is particularly galling to see republicans vote against and i should say there were seven, six or seven that voted
because we had a provision, democrats did to cap the price of insulin at 35 bucks not only for medicare recipients but for anyone on private insurance as well. that of course is a much, much larger group of people who would see the cost of insulin come down, and the republicans refused to go along with the provision to extend that cap on insulin to a larger group of people. now of course i should remind everyone that not a single republican voted for any of this. not a single republican wants to cut health care costs for americans or energy costs for americans, or take on climate change, this was passed on the democratic only vote. but it is particularly galling to see republicans vote against and i should say there were seven, six or seven that voted with democrats on this, but the vast majority of republicans voted against capping the cost of insulin.