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And think of a clean sustainable system where our homes are efficient and our transportation is energy efficient, where we move aggressively to talk about solar, wind, geothermal, and other sustainable technologies, we can create millions of goodpaying green jobs [cheers and applause] senator sanders let me repeat now what i have been criticized for saying on many occasions. Let me be Crystal Clear and say it again. And that is, it is my view, that health care is a right of all people, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] senator sanders now, the Corporate Media does not talk about this a whole lot. They are too busy getting as from the insurance and the Drug Companies. Let me tell you what they may not see on tv. We are the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all all as a right. They do ....
Caps or spreading of maximums throughout the year a person who wouldnt spend 0 more than a certain amount in one year or shift the burden there are two bills pending before the state legislation ab 39 prevents the copies from a tier and assemblyman bill requires the companies to report medications that costs more 10,000 just to conclude it is clear it matters in San Francisco but that helps to put a finer point on this is a chart showing element san franciscans living with hiv we dont have good numbers for multiply scleras and other disease but necessary need access to treatment that is why it is an important issue here in San Francisco thank you very much priscilla so mr. Chairman id like to ask as mentioned our assemblyman david chiu is sponsored legislation around this and aarons office is here i want to ask him to come up and speak on the assembly mans behalf. Thank you ver ....
He showed up to get his monthly drug and he showed me a photo its beyond me why Insurance Companies financial incentives it strikes me it is illegal. I have a little bit of Additional Information that gets to that point here. Okay. So you laid out the speciality tiering as you stated supervisor wiener they may violate the Affordable Health care act provisions for protecting people that have preexisting conditions and maybe discriminatory and for patient it puts a substantial financial strain on people and the costs cannot can be unexpected may be a person needs a drug for a disease and its on a stoplight tier the health plan changed the policy and the cost increased dramatically as youve stated cost effects whether a person can afford their diner or medication theyll probably buy the food they need and th ....
Insurance plan. This is important one conversation we were having in the community there are people that opt for the high digestible plans and find the dedublt are noted manageable were ask them to go to a silver plan were talking about spll silver plans having drugs that are effectively unaffordable for people thats a real problem. Absolutely and i didnt mention when i was talking about the unexpected nature of the health costs brauj plans you pay a lower amount but the minute you need health care it is far more expensive 2, 3, 4 a baggage plan the cost sharing for speciality plans can be 40 percent of the cost for drugs so what that table shows the proportion of the plans for all the drugs in a specified class into the tier for hiv medications they looked at medications broken covering medications for example 29 percent of the plans for all probable cause terrors and 60 percent of plans put the cancer medications into a stoplight column it is nationwide issue a study was done in spec ....
Thats out paigdz our efforts as mentioned in the presentation before me those costs of drugs are set by manufacturers upon drugs launched to the market once drugs o are on the market those prices set the prices for payers and manufacturers increase the price annually. Prices increases for and speciality drugs on the market are seen at 11 to 13 percent annually compared to the cost of living index of 1230 percent speciality drugs as mentioned are increasing at 20 to thirty percent announcing and more than 50 percent of the drugs are speciality drugs many of the drugs require long term and it is okay to place lower drugs. Could you speak directly into the microphone. Towards you. One example of the newer drug used to treat high cholesterol is a drug inhibit our their expended to cost 150 billion a year and to be the highest drugs in history estimated 270 billion in drugs expected to spend on drug in 2015 the cost per patient is 10 and 15,000 and it is not a onetime drug a drug youll take ....