Tom Daschle Quotes
Proprietary medicine certainly has to be held in check.
Tom Daschle, U. S. Senator (Democrat, SD), Senate Minority and Majority Leader, Speech, “Chronic Disease Treatment and Management”, Emory University, C-SPAN 3, June 9, 2008
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In 1989 the company that owned the only drug that was helpful in treating AIDS had not yet made it available for children:
The immediate trigger for this statement was the Mylan Company’s price increase of 500 percent for Epi-pens which people—frequently children—needed to carry to contact a bad allergic reaction that would other wise put them into anaphylactic shock which could be fatal. One of the reasons the company gave for the increase was that their marketing costs were very high. The practice of paying physicians to use a drug and then give testimonials and pitch the drug had long been controversial, but in 2016 the public learned that the practice was much more widespread than anyone had known. Making the situation worse was the fact that physicians would prescribe the drug for their patients and had no obligation to tell the patient or his/her family that he was being paid by the drug company. The Congress held hearings but did nothing at the time.
Alinsky was one of the first of the modern politicians who realized the growing control over peoples’ lives that the health care was assuming. Getting decent health care at an affordable price was getting more and more difficult for the working class unless provided by an employer, and the poor were already at the mercy of whatever system there was in the area as they could go nowhere else.
Actually politicans, civil servants, and private sector individuals who have been working with heath care all knew how complicated health care was. But Trump, who had no experience with health care and its cost and funding structure, when he was a candiate had advisors who were ideologues and had little experience themselves. So Trump campaaigned explaining how simple it was to repeal Obama Care, and replace it with legislation that would cut the insurance premiums, increase the quality of medical care and cover more people while giving consumers protections like no caps and refusals for previous conditions. When he got into office, he discovered that all his campaign ideas would indeed accomplish the objectives that he claimed but it would also mess up other parts of the health system. Nothing could be done in isolation, So he did not repeal Obama Care and made this statement to explain wht he had discovered since assuming office.
Thomas Andrew Daschle is an American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States senator from South Dakota from 1987 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he became U.S. Senate Minority Leader in 1995 and later the Majority Leader in 2001.
