about this. if you eliminate the middle man, i ll grow a full head of hair. that s the single biggest problem with our system. we have these pharmacy benefit pharmacy pbm, pharmacy benefit managers. and they don t exist in other places and they are what lead to no transparency in drug pricing. what alex azar said, he was the president of eli lilly, the u.s. division. he understands how this works. he was deputy health and human services secretary. you don t know what a drug price is, you see the ads, but don t know what they cost. there are massively high list prices and pbms negotiate prices along the way and depending who you re insured by, you in theory get a discounted price. they want to preserve the ability to get the full price from somebody who isn t covered. everybody in america, it is like an airplane seat, you pay a different price for the drugs you re on. number one, trying to manage that is very difficult. they re the biggest lobbyists around. they have paid more m
well we can get rid of them. again, here s a president who truly understands. i have always said, the most immediate, the most significant impact we can have on prescription drug prices is to have transparency. the pmbms, the middlemen, if you ask them what s your mission? they will say it is to keep prescription drug prices low. it s not working out well for you at all. they bring no value to the system whatsoever. what they do is increase the price of the medications and don t pass the discounts on to patients to the consumers. what s the solution? let s think big. how do you make drug prices more accessible to consumers while ensuring the drug companies make money so they can continue to develop drugs. you know, they make the argument they make lots of drugs, done make money on some of them, they need to have blockbuster drugs and they have got to get a lot of money. what s the recipe for success here, as a guy who is pharmacist who has had to deal with customers who probably ha
and you have a real echo again of watergate. you had richard nixon saying a year of watergate is enough. and you have the vice president saying we gave 1.2 million documents. but you reason is given the ones that are needed. you haven t cooperated completely. don t shut down an investigation until it comes to its own natural conclusion. this is just wrong. and it is more of the obstruction. it seems plain to me. the more they attack the fbi. the more they attack mueller, the more they attack the department of justice. the more they attack rosenstein. those are things that are obstruction of justice. you can have obstruction even if you don t have an underlying crime. you can. and that s what this looks like. they should be more careful. and i wouldn t be taking my legal advice from rudy giuliani or factual statements either because we know how inaccurate he has been. jill, there is weird stuff going on these days testimony michael cohen stuff, the rudy giuliani stuff. it s hard to be
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the white house says it needs nearly 3 million young and healthy people to enroll to keep premiums from rising. when the insurers come back to price premiums next january 1st they are going to make the premiums reflect the pool of enrollees that they get and if the pool of enrollees that they get is relatively sick and expensive it will make the premiums be higher. but enrolling uninsured hispanics comes with its own set of challenges like making sure there are enough bilingual navigators to assist in filling out applications. undocumented immigrants don t qualify. and the spanish website can t enroll people until at least october 21st. the white house is relying also on grassroot efforts from 30 hispanic organizations and businesses to educate the community. brian, thank you very much. consumer sentiment