DPCC Co-Chair Dingell: Democrats Are Working to Lower Health Care Costs for the American People
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), appeared on Weekends With Alex Witt on MSNBC to discuss how Democrats are fighting For the People to lower health care costs, rebuild America's infrastructure, and clean up corruption in Washington. Below are excerpts from the interview. Click here to watch the video
"We have heard about the EpiPen, insulin, [but] the thing I'm trying to educate people about right now is the inhaler, the purple inhaler you see children use is $800. $800….We have to do something about the cost of drugs in this country. And it's not a partisan issue. Republicans and Democrats are hearing about it across the country. And these are lifesaving drugs, and we've got to go in and do something…at the very least [we've got to make sure] Medicare can go in and negotiate so that we can lower the cost to consumers. When the cost of insulin, the cost of asthma medicine and the cost of this AIDs drug - every day medicines that children and adults are using are so prohibitive – people are making choices between eating or taking their medicine."