essentially financial changes rather than straight up policy changes. i think it looks good. this is the same process, for example, that the republicans used five years ago for the massive tax cuts for corporations. so i think it is going to clear those hurdles. do you think this will help democrats in the midterm elections upcoming? well, i think the first thing i want to say about the bill, here is the breaking news, guys, this is a bipartisan bill. it is bipartisan everywhere but in the u.s. capitol. the morning consult did a poll this week and just going down the numbers, i mean, basically they polled all the individual provisions of the bill, and it is sort of unbelievable. limiting annual pocket drug costs for seniors to $2,000, 72% favor, 11% against. minimum tax on corporations, 63 to 21. i mean, the numbers are all just sort of overwhelming in terms of
also under my plan, i will cap out of pocket drug costs for working families. you won t have to pay more than $250 a month for covered medications. but that won t actually control the prices. that will be built into your health insurance, and that provision conceivably could end up raising premiums. you re talking about subsidizing the cost as opposed to using the power of the federal government to regulate drug prices by essentially making the federal government the biggest buyer who can force the prices down. and i think that it is true, the two times with eeve had major health care overhauls remember, when george w. bush passed their prescription drug plan, they had a huge dougnut hole in it that caused your prices to spike when you received a threshold. you didn t catch up with your subsidies again until $5,001. big pharma is so power, but i
for a little bit of this. they re cutting in large part health care back in 2009 and 2010 was the pharmaceutical lobby. what they did was in exchange for promising not to let medicare negotiate its own prescription drug prices, they said pharma would support health care reform. now we re living with that consequence. you can argue that was a necessary deal to be had, but we are living with those consequences. and so now you see the democratic primary field, hillary clinton and bernie sanders saying okay, we want to keep obama care in place but we want to build off of it in fundamental ways. the most fundamental is to find a way to keep costs model. and let s listen to hillary clinton say it about a $250 month cap that she wants to put. also under my plan, i will cap out of pocket drug costs for working families.