excessive – Hillary Clinton Speeches

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On Friday, Hillary Clinton announced a plan to combat the rising cost of prescription drugs, particularly the excessive rise in costs of live saving prescriptions like the EpiPen. Clinton’s plan would create a federal team to monitor drug prices and track increases. Her plan also provides several actions the government could take when drug prices have been raised excessively such as fines and increased access to treatment programs. An outline of Clinton’s proposal is below, and the full plan can be read on The Briefing.

Making alternatives available and increasing competition
Emergency importation of safe treatments
Penalties for unjustified price increases to hold drug companies accountable and fund expanded access
Dedicated oversight to protect consumers
Strong new enforcement measures to respond when there are unjustified, outlier price increases that threaten public health
- Directly intervening to make treatments available, and supporting generic and alternative manufacturers that enter the market and increase competition to bring down prices
- Broadening access to safe, high-quality generic and alternative competitors through emergency importation
- Holding drug makers accountable for unjustified price increases with new penalties – and using the funds to expand access and competition
Cap monthly and annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs to save patients with chronic or serious health conditions hundreds or thousands of dollars
Clear out the FDA generic backlog
Prohibit “pay for delay” arrangements that keep generic competition off the market
Ensure American consumers are getting value for their drugs
Stop direct-to-consumer drug company advertising subsidies, and reinvest funds in research
Require drug companies that benefit from taxpayers’ support to invest in research, not marketing or profits
Allow Medicare to negotiate drug and biologic prices and demand higher rebates for prescription drugs in Medicare

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News Source: The Briefing, The New York Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at the National Urban League Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Clinton spoke to a group of African-American leaders right before Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, and she took full advantage of it. While she did not mention him by name, she called out his record on race relations by calling out his campaign slogan and PAC, “Right to Rise.” Clinton said, “People can’t rise if they can’t afford health care. They can’t rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on. They can’t rise if their governor makes it harder for them to get a college education.”

She also spoke about the excessive use of force by law enforcement when confronting African-American suspects, and the continued issue of race discrimination saying, “We can’t go on like this. We are better than this. Things must change.” The full video of Clinton’s speech is below.