but plavix helps save lives. plavix taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming clots. ask your doctor about plavix. protection that helps save lives. people with stomach ulcers or other conditions that cause bleeding should not use plavix. taking plavix alone or with some other medicines including aspirin may increase bleeding risk, so tell your doctor when planning surgery. certain genetic factors and some medicines, such as prilosec, may affect how plavix works. tell your doctor all the medicines you take, including aspirin, especially if you've had a stroke. if fever, unexplained weakness or confusion develops, tell your doctor promptly. these may be signs of ttp, a rare but potentially life-threatening condition reported sometimes less than 2 weeks after starting plavix. other rare but serious side effects may occur.

this is plavix. now plavix is an anticoagulant. you will see that we pay higher than all of these countries, by far. more than double what the british pay. more than double what the spanish pay. this is the axiom. if you are someone who has alters and you are taking nexium, for an equivalent amount of the same drug, nexium, you are charged $424 if you're an american citizen. $40 for the british, $36 for the spanish, $37 for the germans, $67 for the french. the american consumer trying to control their condition of ulcers pays $424. 10 times the amount of money that others are paying for the identical drug. 10 times. well, this kind of what i believe is gouging, that is a pricing strategy that god is the american consumer, can largely be resolved by the amendment that i have offered. it removes that little sweetheart and pediment in law and says to the american people, you may import prescription drugs that are fda approved from registered enterprises in other countries. we specifically delineate which countries those are. there are

and you should try a different drug, because then plavix wouldn't help those in that subset. and for the interest and understanding of personalized medicine and the study of genome can improve the opportunity for human health. and that's what the book is about. >> have you switched to swimming because of your genetic profile? >> to tell you the truth, when i found out that i was at a higher risk of diabetes than the average person. i was surprised, because i don't have a family history. but on the other hand the people in my family were lean and i was less lean. and as a consequence of that, i got into an exercise program and hire a personal trainer and get my nutrition straightened out and i have lot of 25 pounds. and i feel better, and i could say that this analysis helped me. and the skeptic could say, you should have done that anyway. and they would be right, but to have this information as a motivator for me was an impact. >> dr. frances collin has been our guest on "newsmakers." >> and we are back with our reporters, rebecca adams and dan vergana. rebecca, what did you

this is plavix. now plavix is an anticoagulant. you will see that we pay higher than all of these countries by far. more than double what the british pay, more than double what the spanish pay. this is an mexia. if you are someone who has also sent you are taking axiom. for an equivalent amount of the same drug mexia you are charged $424 if you are an american citizen $40 for the british, $36 for the spanish, $37 for the germans, $67 for the french. the american consumer trying to control their condition of ulcers pays $424. ten times the amount of money that others are paying for the identical drug. ten times. well, this kind of what i believe is gouging, that is a pricing strategy that couches the american consumer can largely be resolved by the amendments that i have offered. every news that little sweetheart impediment in law and says to the american people, you may import prescription drugs that are fda approved for registered enterprises and other countries. we specifically say which countries those are that have the identica

let me show you plavix. you see the u.s. price here? the united states consumer gets to pay the highest prices in the world. nexium, if you want to buy nexium, you get to pay $424 here in the united states, $41, 1/10 the price in england, $36 in spain, $37 in germany. now, the question is this: if this nexium is an f.d.a.-approved drug -- and it is -- made in plants that are f.d.a. approved by our own food and drug administration -- and it is -- then why should an american citizen not be able to access this drug from here, from here, from here? why? because the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want them to, and they have had enough friends around here to keep in place a law that prevents the american people from reimporting these drugs. that's why. and that's what this amendment's about. this amendment says give the american people the freedom to access f.d.a.-approved drugs where they are sold at a fraction of the price. now, madam president, there's a lot to talk about, and i'm going to describe a number of the circumstances that have

plavix, same story. canada $85. france $77. germany $85. neglect land $77 -- netherlands $77. and in the u.s.a., $133. same medicine. nexium, wow. somebody explain this to me, i really would appreciate it. nexium. canada $65. germany $37. spain $36. u.k. $41. united states of america, $424. five, six times more than in the united kingdom. and people wonder why americans are running over the canadian border or they're on the internet trying to get this medicine. why is it that the drug companies charge $424 here and $41 in the u.k.? well, the reason they're charging it is because they can charge it. if you walk into your drugstore tomorrow, you can find that the prices that you pay double, triple, because in this country we're the only country in the world that does not have in one way or another some kind of regulation on prices because all these countries, by the way, have national health care programs. that's another reason why their drug prices are much lower. we don't, of course. but at the very least what re-importation is about is saying in a global economy, when all kin

singular up 12%, embrel up 12%, boniva, plavix, the list goes on. should we say, let's pass health care reform and ignore what's happening to the price of prescription drugs. this amendment that i offered with senator mccain, senator grassley, many of my colleagues on this side, 30 co-sponsors, this amendment that i -- cosponsors, this amendment that i offered is for freedom for the american people. how about giving the american people the ability to access identical prescription drugs, we know are identical because -- those who talk about safety, let me -- let me remind them 40% of the active ingredients in u.s. prescription drugs come from india and china, from places in india and china that have never been inspected. that's in the existing drug supply. 40%. "the wall street journal," did some really terrific exposes about this. you know, there were over 60 people in this country died from something called heparin, contaminated heparin? here's where they were taking it. "the wall street journal," did these pictures. you'll see thrusty, old pot. an

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