drugs never leave patent. they can t enter the market to compete. another is rigid fda regulations costly and time consuming to put new drug. use legal challenges to deter competition. and of course greed plays a role, too. that s a word we don t use very often but still real. one of the dead sins for good reason. whatever the reasons for the spike in prices in insulin, it s a huge problem. and you would think it s something that congress and the administration would consider taking action on. there are some things they could do. maybe they should streamline an fda approval process or adjust patent law. maybe they should subsidize the creation of a generic insulin brand. after all we spend billions subsidizing solar panels and electric cars only rich people can afford. once you give lecture about the market remind you we do that we are not scientists or economists we can say this is a real problem that congress appears to be ignoring. in october, the president pitched a plan to lower d
familiar with the law either. hard to get this through the congress. what if the president said just announced we are pulling our troops out of syria? what if he were to say i m going to take the cost savings from that and apply it to border security? well, he could say that but it s just not how the system works, right? there is many that s programmed for certain places. now, the president has said to his cabinet look for any money that we could put toward this virtual wall, border security. wall, whatever you are going to call it, the democrats are going to fuss about that because technical reason reprogramming money is not that easy to do. the president has two opportunities coming up in the next six weeks. he will have the state of the union. that s a big moment, right? that s all eyes on the president and then he has a week later or two two weeks later a budget proposal. budget proposal is a prioritizing document. the president is say this is what i agree with i feel like his
going to be wall, give him a minute. give him a chance. this is not a sprint. he is in a marathon. tucker: you think it is and you know the system very well. you think it is at least plausible that in the next two years some kind of wall like structure appears on the southern border? i feel like is it. it is possible to get border security funding and for construction to start. will that look like a steel wall all across the border? probably not. no matter what president trump gets in terms of border security, he is going to call that a wall. is he a good communicator. he will figure that out. and no matter what, the democrats will say see, we told you he wasn t going to get that steel wall all across the border. but, border security, i think, is a real possibility. i think there new members of congress who are going to be willing. remember, this for republicans and democrats, there is a lot more veterans that just got elected to congress. they are used to working with the othe
prices across the board tying medicare reimbursement to drug prices in other countries. republicans in congress and on k-street hate that idea. pharma s bottom line is important to them and it s not an unimportant factor. on the other hand, americans are dying from easily treated illnesses. that s a factor, too. on the left, well, they don t care at all. at least not right now. their top priority is impeaching trump not collaborating with trump on healthcare. just like on tech and other issues they are easily distracted by superficial political signaling. santa foye is one of the companies now driving up insulin prices but that company won some degree of credibility from the left last summer and is now insulated from criticism. why? well, because, when rose van barr blamed ambien for the ill advised tweets that got her show cancelled. that company tweeted that racism is not a side effect of its medication. and the left roared with
the president enforcement slush fund as he called it? leader mcconnell proposed the bipartisan senate dhs bill which has 1.6 billion for border security plus a 1 billion-dollar slush fund for the president to use for his radical immigration agenda. i called leader mcconnell and told him we would not accept their 1 billion-dollar slush fund and that our offers to fund the government remain. tucker: don t take those words the wrong way. the problem democrats have is with border enforcement. they don t have a problem with slush funds. congress loves slush funds for years they have maintained a slush 23u7bd at your expense, taxpayer funded to pay off people who accuse members of congress of sexual harassment. the democrats will control the house in just a couple weeks, of course. are they going to end the slush fund and more to the point will they tell us who has been protected by it? what are the names?