this congress has just been doing repeal and windowdressing. it really isn't lowering costs. my proposal is that we need to shore up the individual market. congress made commitments they are not fulfilling that will help people pay their premiums. we need to ensure medicare can bargain for drug prices. that will lower drug prices at a projected 46%. we certainly need to advance generics. buying over state lines does not give any consumer protections to folks. and buying into medicare. i'm absolutely committed to this issue. -- wehow leadership need to show leadership in congress, not these piecemeal bits of windowdressing. john: we will move on to the open discussion on the current topic of health care. greg gianforte: let's remember how we got here. obamacare is a failed experiment. it promised the moon and delivered higher premiums and difficulty for montana families. that is why we cannot double down on a failed approach. we need a new approach. rather than a single-payer system that will bankrupt the country, we need to move toward more options. you can get into a plan th

it was almost like windowdressing. you have a committee but we are not listening to you. the industry has shown time and again, and that is putting it kindly. we are regulated to death. method, her when, pharmaceuticals, opiates, crack and heroin are all cheaper than come -- then cannabis. they have made it a v.i.p. commodity. they act like they invented it. it is really arrogant. we can and should do better in this city. we are the experts. i am dealing with lyme disease. i have to pay $350 for a dr 's appointment because the general medical community does not believe that lyme disease exists so they can make money off of all the pharmaceuticals to prop us up even though we die of heart disease all the time. my heart almost stopped three times a week from lyme disease. i can't even drink coffee. thank you. >> thank you. next speakers. >> next i have is victoria wong. carrie toe and sonia ng. and there are two speakers that want to speak together but i don't have their names. you can come up, both of you. >> my name is victoria wong. i'm i am a resident of san francisco.

it was really the academy of windowdressing. so she tried to tell us that a full investigation has been carried out, that she had examined his record and found it to be far more centrist or liberal than other people -- mostly all of them -- have deemed it to be or have read it to be, rather. and then also she then went on to tell dr. blasey ford that she did not know what she was talking about. in the republican line that goes, we believe dr. blasey ford but we don't think she really her. what happened to her. and if that is not the definition of trying to gaslight someone, i don't know what is. it was deeply, deeply painful. amy: i want to turn to -- i want to tururn to the fact that neitr blasey ford or kavanaugh was interviewed by the fbi. a very different situation than beining questioned at dissident- at the senate judiciary committee. had is what dr. blasey ford called for, an fbi investigation. the criticism at the beginning was, don't just interviewed the two of them, go beyond that. i think very few people thought, mayb

is it going to be a strong bill or something that is a windowdressing that they are happy with? >> i think that industry wants a uniform consistent standard. they want preemption. they want a national approach to this, not a 50 state approach. i think that provides us with some leverage. i think it also suggests that they're going to have to be at the table and offering up good solutions for this. we will see what happens. like i said, we will hear from some of the consumer groups later and we are going to try to incorporate the best ideas. i think what you heard today were several themes. one is they like the idc as a regulator. they want preemption. they want a national approach. and they want an approach that consistently applies to all the players out there in the space those are all good things to know going forward. obviously, as we look at what we might do legislatively it will have to incorporate democrat ideas as well pick they will probably generally went a more heavy regulatory approach at the federal level and would be pushing hard in that direction. we always approa