house speaker nancy pelosi releases the drug pricing plan and likely will call for an overhaul of medicare s prescription drug program. and that s the only vision. also wonderland columnist at the journal and you can find that every thursday morning and that s the first thing that i want to do when i wake up. republican leadership aide at telling axios this, any notion that this will get done easily if at all is entirely false. it sounds like a good idea but it s hard to get done. it s always hard to get done. somehow the federal government negotiating prices, then those prices would become true all over the private market. and that indeed is going to be
law that created medicare s prescription drug program actually bans the federal government from negotiating cheaper prices. joining me is michigan democratic senator who sits on the finance committee and questioned the executives today. senator, thank you for being with us. absolutely. it s great to be with you and i want to say amen to what you just said. thank you. let s talk about insulin. i had a lot of tweets from people who have trouble getting their insulin. according to the new york times editorial, a vial of insulin sells for $1500. one drug that sells for less than $350 in britain costs $26,000 for a one-month supply in the united states. what do you make of this? it s outrageous. let me start by saying insulin
incentives, pretty bold stuff today. ainsley: the last one is options to lower patients out of pocket spending. so the president s already called in his budget for changes to the prescription drug program in medicare that would allow senior citizens who hit his catastrophic period to pay nothing out of pocket so really, relieve a huge burden on our senior citizens. we re going to go after some practices that really impair senior citizen s ability to get the best deal when they walk into the pharmacy for their drugs, go after frankly some pretty outrageous practices. ainsley: that would be amazing they don t have to pay anything, wow we hope that happens. the president will be speaking in the rose garden at 2:00 p.m. today with these big announcements. democrats are hailing facebook s transparencies but guess what terrorists are still using the site to recruit. curt the cyberguy is here to tell us how, next and many comic s are quick to sling in president trump but not jerry
see any evidence of that, as well as the fact that she sebed as a health and human services secretary longer than a lot of others have historically. the question i want to ask you, comment on any of that, and then what do you think about the fact that generally more of the ayre against obama care has obviously focused on the president and not as many on sebelius in contrast to say under bush where there were a lot of other lightning rods cheney, wolfowitz, levy. a lot of other people caught the ayre. ezra cline has a terrific piece in vox on obama care derangement syndrome. the notion that you can t look at positive things, but just simply have to focus on blowing the whole thing up. you know, at the same time this is not just a political mistake, i think. it s a tragedy because the fact is the law is working in some ways, but it s flawed. there are plenty of problems, as there are with almost any big social policy as it gets unroled. that was true of bush s medicare prescription d
website. and it may have been a complicated website. but even by government standards that should have been enough time and money to actually get something functioning. the government has been able to build other websites for social security. the medicare prescription drug program, they have had some glitches. but nothing like the catastrophic failure we ve seen with healthcare.gov. it remains to be seen, whether one agency overseeing all the projects will help to streamline or make it more difficult. but the obama administration is definitely looking for problems, to cast blame and this is what they re bringing up so far. you brought this up, the casting blame. i would ask why would you handle it this way because you could just deal with the website. yeah, i mean, it speaks to the continued problems, they said they would have an amazon-like experience that people could go on line and within a few minutes just pick