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
Subcommittee hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on health and Human Services and education to discuss the fiscal year 2017 National Institutes of Health Budget request. We are looking forward to hearing the testimony of dr. Whoins and his colleagues will be brought in for questions along the way. I would like to publicly thank dr. Collins and the staff at the nih for hosting me and other subcommittee members for a briefing at a tour at the nih campus a few weeks ago. I hope it will become an annual trek. Withinleft nih appreciation of the exciting work your staff to every day to find ways to save lives. I am proud than last year this congress was able to increase nih funding by 2 billion a night in confident that through these efforts one day we will find cures for diseases like cancer and alzheimers. Fore disappointed is the proposed budget cut to the. Ih this year the proposal to divert one billion dollars of Biomedical Research
Came out two weeks ago latinos and the Voting Rights act the search for racial purpose. Both of these deal with the same phenomenon. The rapidly growing latino population of the United States and the way the population impacted politics. According to census figures in 2000 the latino population, in 2010, it is 16. 3 and projections that it will be 25 by 2015. Matchbook looks at the impact of the growing population and through polling determines what latinos at thinking about politics and why people are voting and what theyre not voting. Henrys book looks at the response to this phenomenon, the efforts, to dilute and suppress the effects of the latinos surge through redistricting, voter id laws and challenges to the Voting Rights act in 1965. We had democrats in texas and elsewhere saying the time is on the Democratic Partys id, and joy on the other hand republicans saying latinos are socially conservative and the famous Ronald Reagan line latinos are republicans, they just dont know it
University . We have the latest. I dont mess around, and neither does donald trump. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. Its 63 days until election day. Everyone is going to try to figure out where exactly the race stands today as we hit the home stretch. But if you read todays polls, you wont find any claty i the headlines out there. Pretty much its a choose your own adventure of polling chaos. Clinton maintains a lead. Up six points. Wait. The race is tightening in the home stretch. Wait a minute. Shock poll, trump leads clinton. Wait a minute. Clinton could win texas . Dead heat there . You get our picture. Folks, its time for a bit of a reality check, and lets start with the big shock from this morning, the cnn poll that has gotten the most attention. They have trump up two among likely voters. But this poll assumes a lot of things. It assumes an electorate that weve never seen before. Whites without a C