ABLE TO ACHIEVE. >> >'> O ' Donnell: ALL RIGHT, MAJOR GARRETT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT, WE NEED TO TURN NOW TO THE ESCALATING COSTS OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS JUST REVEALED A STRATEGY TO CUT COSTS OF SOMETIMES-LIFE-SAVING MEDICATIONS. BUT AS CBS' ' KRIS VAN CLEAVE RECORDS, THE DRUG MARKET IS INVESTING BIG TO MAINTAIN THAT FROM HAPPENING. >> > > Press Reporter: MARYLIN ROSE'' S CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA WOULD BE A DEATH SENTENCE WITHOUT HER DAILY MEDICINE. >> > > I STATE IT ' “S MY “SURVIVE PILL.” >>” > > Reporter: BUT THAT STAY ALIVE COSTS CANISTER EXPENSE UP TO $10,000 A MONTH. SHE WORRIES WITHOUT A CURB ON PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE COSTS HER EXPENSE COULD SOAR. >> > >'IT ' S A WONDER THAT THE MEDICATION EXISTS, BUT THE IDEA THAT I'' M BEHOLDEN TO IT IS REALLY A LITTLE SCARY. >> > > Press reporter: THE BRAND-NEW COMPROMISE PLAN ON CAPITOL HILL WOULD DEAL SOME RELIEF GRADUALLY ALLOWING MEDICARE TO BARGAIN MEDICATION RATES, COMPARABLE TO PRIVATE INSURERS, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHILE TOPPING OUT-OF-POCKET PRICES WILL CERTAINLY AT $2,000, AND ALSO SETTING LIMITS ON THE PRICES OF INSULIN.
>> > > THIS IS THE TIME TO GET GENUINE ALLEVIATION TO SENIORS WHO ARE GETTING HELD UP AT THE PHARMACY COUNTER ALL THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. >> > > Reporter: THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY HAS SPENT ALMOST $263 MILLION ON LOBBYING SO FAR THIS YEAR, USING THREE LOBBYISTS FOR EVERY PARTICIPANT OF CONGRESS. >> > > THEY HAVE REALLY ENDLESS RESOURCES TO TOSS AT FORMING THE OUTCOMES OF LEGISLATION. >> > > Reorter: MILLIONS OF THOSE DOLLARS ARE PROJECT DONATIONS.EARLIER THIS YEAR, CONGRESSMAN SCOTT PETERS TRIGGERED PROTESTS OUTSIDE HIS SAN DIEGO DISTRICT OFFICE WHEN HE CAME OUT AGAINST A PLAN TO CUT MEDICINE COSTS FOR ELDERS. HE ' S GOT VIRTUALLY$130,000 FROM THE SECTOR'. ARIZONA LEGISLATOR KRYSTEN SINEMA HAS GOTTEN ABOUT$100,000, AND NEW JACKET SENATOR ROBERT MENENDEZ HAS TAKEN IN NEARLY$ 80,000. I ' M CURIOUS WHAT MESSAGE THAT SENDS OUT. >'> PROFITS IS I ' M SUPPORTING A >> PRICE SETTLEMENT'BILL THAT HAS BEEN FUNCTIONED OUT. WHAT I ' VE CLAIMED BECAUSE THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE'CONVERSATION, HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT CUSTOMERS AT THE COUNTER GET RELIEF? > > Reporter: NEW JERSEY IS HOUSE TO A VARIETY OF PHARMACEUTICAL> COMPANIES.ALL THREE OF THESE LAWMAKERS STATE THEY ASSISTANCE THIS CONCESSION, ADDING IT WILL CERTAINLY CONSERVE
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