The drug costs patients 129,000. The same cost for patients in other countries about a third of that amount. I realize the pharmaceutical Companies Invest their researches, they bring a new drug to market, they should profit from that innovation, but why are the u. S. Patients getti getting gauged for drugs. Can you better explain why u. S. Taxpayers are paying for Biomedical Research at the front end and paying exorbitant prices at the back end . Ill just say that 50 of my colleagues and myself sent a letter to you and secretary burwell requesting that they write when taxpair funded research leads to patent product not available to the public on reasonable terms . What are reasonable terms . A drug shouldnt cost 129,000 for people to get access to it. I know this is a topic of great interest, and while it should be and my heart goes out as all of us do to patients who are in need of a therapeutic which is outside of their financial means to be able to gain access to. That ought to be
Have an obligation and a mandate given to us by the citizens of this country to go on course, to put those reforms in place, to get the country back on track. Thats something i can control. Thats something i can be involved in. Thats something i can help deliver. Thats what im focused on. Thank you very much. Whos your final four pick . [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] House Minority nancy pelosi held her briefing at the capitol. She discussed several issues including the 2017 budget, the zika virus and the flint, michigan, water contamination water issue. This is about 20 minutes. Ms. Pelosi i see some wearing green here. Good morning. What a week, huh . Yesterday, president obama presented his nomination for the next justice of the Supreme Court, judge Merrick Garland. Hes a widely respected jurist who embodies wisdom, judgm
The clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C, nod conversation will now come to order and the chair recognizes himself for five minutes for the purpose of an Opening Statement. This morning, first let me welcome our witnesses. This morning we will receive an update on the Consumer Protection efforts in place to address the fraud risk for americas seniors. As of july 2013, there are over 44 million americans who are older than 65. That almost 14 of the population. The population, 65 and holder in the United States, projects to outnumber people younger than 18 for the first time in 2033. A mere 18 years from now. The Median Income of these households is over 35,000 per year, and 71 report having a computer in their home. The median networth of seniors 65 and over is 25 times that of people under 35 years of age. The expanding population of Older Americans and their relative wealth compared to other age groups increases the risk that someone will want to ta
Changes the conversation because focusing on advancing women and, again, i want women in the top of every profession but when we think about it that way, we start counting. Because thats the way you measure how well women are doing, how many women are in fortune 500 and how many women are in Senior Management and how many women are computer scientists. All that have does focus pretty much on wealthy white women, by and large. It does not phofocus on the millions of the women at the bottom. One of the thing i realize, we have too few women at the top and too many women at the bottom and care or our lack of support for care plays a role at both ends. At the top end, if you take time out for care, your career goes off track. But for the millions of women at the bottom not supporting their care means if they take a day off they could lose a job, right . So focusing on care says we have to put in place the policies that rich women can buy their way out of often. We have to put in leave, pai
State of play there . Jim, are you following that . Well, a bit. Im not probably not as expert as some others are on this. But certainly i think youre right that the because we are two such gigantic financial markets, the opportunities in liberalization there or harmonization are tremendous. The benefits that flow from that are probably as large as anything you could think of in the entire ttip agreement that would flow from that. In the United States the reluctance on the part and i think we should be doing it. I think the reluctance in the United States is the passage of dodd franks and nobody wants its too new, nobody wants to tamper with that, nobody wants to tinker with that. I think it definitely needs some tinkering with, but nobody really wants to deal with dodd frank and the secretary of treasury, this is a little bit of a turf battle, the secretary of treasury saying thats our area. Trade negotiators dont get into these Financial Services issues, thats for treasury to negotia