some more than $100,000, so some doctors are starting to say, it's just too much. 57-year-old barbara hayneas diagnosed with breast cancer eight months ago. before the shock of the diagnosis wore off she was hit with another one. the cost of the drugs her doctor prescribed to treat her cancer. >> i asked her if there were any other cheaper options that would do the same thing for me. >> her doctor says this happens frequently. >> all we can do at this point is pick the least costly agent that we have available to us that we know is going to be equally efficacious. >> in 2012 the food & drug administration approved 12 new cancer drugs, many costing around $100,000 a year, joining other big price tags on the shelf. one drug approved to treat leukemia cost up to $30,000 a year when it was approved. now, more than 90. this drug runs around $13,000 annually, also to treat leukemia. >> there are cancer drugs so transformative, such break throughs, their prices are lower than might be justified but there are some drugs that do not deliver much value relative to their price. >> two years ago doctor

george and our excessively enclosing our fire chief chief joanne haynes-white and countless others that are standing behind me barbara garcia and other colleagues that have provide shelters for the homeless. people from our labor and business organizations from across town this is a piece of legislation that should unite us i look forward to it moving forward i want to introduce one the laura's supporters our great mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee >> (clapping) >> thank you supervisor farrell and thank you for your leadership on this as well. you, you know, san francisco is is a very came pact city. we spent $2.7 billion a year a great bulk here in the general hospital and the public health department aid thanks to the classification of our fire and scheef and district attorney we pick up a lot of people own the streets and we know when the environment they go back perhaps a day of respite and they're back. while we, provide pride in moving some 18 thousand homeless people into shelters we see on the streets we have to do more and this is exactly the issue that supervisor farrell is addressing. i really want to si