Washington journal. Segment wekend, this take a look at the intersection of your money and federal policy. This week, we are joined by David Mitchell, president and founder of patients for Affordable Drugs to talk about Prescription Drug prices. What is your group . Help patients for Affordable Drugs. We are the only National Patient organization focused exclusively on policies to lower drug prices. We dont take money from any organizations that profit from the development of scripture drugs. Patients for Affordable Drugs, you are a patient yourself . I yes, about seven years ago was diagnosed with an incurable blood counter cancer. It is treatable, but with very expensive drugs. The drugs i took last year, 400 and 50,000 retail price. This experience of having a cancer and having to deal with these expensive drugs brought me face to face with challenges people confront. Nobody was speaking up on behalf of the patients on direct pricing. Decided we arei going to try and start a group t
Take money from any organizations that have profited from the development. Host you are a patient yourself. Yes. About seven years ago i was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer. Its incurable, thats the bad news. The good news is that its treatable but with very expensive drugs. The drug i took was 450,000. This experience of having a cancer that is tough and having to deal with these expensive drugs brought meth facetoface with the challengess people confront and nobody was really speaking up on behalf of patients on drug pricing so my wife who is a little crazy too, and also a cancer survivor, she and i decided we would try to start a group to do this. Host how many patients are part of your group and how long have you been around. We launched almost a year ago on february 22 of last year. We have collected 12000 patient stories and email addresses from almost 30,000 people around the country. Its an advocacy organization, what is the tax filing, what are you legally allowed to
Give us a call, republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch us catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning and you can start calling in now as we talk about the president s fiscal 2019 Budget Proposal and what is being reported is the plan does not include the goal of balancing the budget over the next 10 years. Here is the Washington Post on that this morning. President trump slated to announce a new budget plan that will no longer seek to eliminate the deficit over a decade, forfeiting a major republican goal. The plan will call for a range of spending cuts that reduce the growth of the deficit by 3 trillion over 10 years, but it will not attempt to balance the federal budget. It will relinquish the deficit the goal comes after President Trump pushed a 1. 5 trillion tax cut through late last year and signed budget deal last week that lists federal spendi
Yesterday, saying that peoples lives are being destroyed by mere allegations want to get to your calls. 202 7488001, our line for republicans. 202 7488000 if you are a democrat. For independentss, 202 7488002. Send us a tweet cspanwj. Also on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Good sunday morning. Let me begin with the president s tweet. This is what he wrote peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true, and some are false. Some are old, and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as due process . The Associated Press has this story, the west wing rattled, the president casting doubt on his aides exit. You can find it on ap. Com. Heading to the tumbled that has splintered the staff and imperiled his chief of staff, john kellys, hold on the position. Denials ofd his own sexual and propriety on the face of accusations from more than a dozen women. His response also refl
Before it was too late but they refused to listen ignoring the americans that were against this. The leader then promised what had been the plan all along which is to continue bipartisan discussions that will be followed by open debate on the floor. Shortly, this evening, we will take up a vote on a vehicle to which members can offer their ideas on how to best solve this problem. Be a process thats fair to all sides. Once we adopt a motion to proceed we will have the opportunity to have our proposals considered under regular order, in other words offer amendment, debate amendment and vote on amendments. It willt have a 60 vote threshold before it can be adopted. I we need one i can pass the house and be signed into law. This should be about getting a bill signed into law. A group of members from the side of the aisle will put forth a comprehensive proposal. Most people have been surprised, maybe shocked is a better word at the generosity of the present offer for the daca eligible recip