With support of President Joe Biden, the New York Senator is hopeful a solution can be found. Author: Steve Brown, Bill Boyer Published: 7:11 PM EDT May 3, 2021 Updated: 7:13 PM EDT May 3, 2021
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. “In America, we pay far too much for prescription drugs,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand during her appearance in Niagara Falls Monday morning.
And it’s not hard to find an example to back up Gillibrand.
Insulin is a life-saving drug for the millions who have diabetes. One commonly used brand is NovoLog. On the website GoodRx, that monitors prescription prices we found a five pack of injector pens selling for $243.10 at a Rite Aid in Buffalo. Across the Niagara River, at the pharmacy inside the Fort Erie WalMart, the same insulin pens sell for $77.82 (US Dollars).
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For a generation, when Lawrence Summers talked, politicians listened. As a powerful and trusted adviser to the last two Democratic presidents, the Harvard professor held sway throughout the Treasury Department and White House. But this March, he started singing a very different tune. In an interview with Bloomberg, he sputtered that President Joe Biden had crafted “the least responsible macroeconomic policies we’ve had in the last 40 years.”
His criticisms have drawn a fervent response from Jared Bernstein, a Democratic administration official who sits on the Council of Economic Advisers. Summers is “just wrong,” Bernstein said from the White House briefing podium. “He is wrong in a pretty profound way,” he told CNN. “We have to go big and we have to go bold.”
May 4—U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Aging Committee, stood at the Health Association of Niagara County Inc. (HANCI) in Niagara Falls on Monday to call for a package of three bills to help reduce the cost of prescription drugs, and help ensure that everyone can access the medicine they need. Over the years, Gillibrand said, prescription drug costs have become .
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WHCU) – Senator Kirsten Gillibrand traveled to Rochester and Syracuse today, calling for three bills to be passed to help lower prescription drug prices.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, image provided
Gillibrand says drug companies have continued to raise prices while one in four Americans are no longer able to afford medication they need. She also noted almost one-third of American’s haven’t taken their prescribed medications this past year because of the costs being too high.
Senator Gillibrand said, “As a member of the Aging Committee, reducing prescription drug prices for our seniors is one of my top priorities. Congress must take immediate action to ensure Americans can afford the medications they need and I will be fighting alongside my colleagues to get these provisions passed.”
At last month’s London Mayoral Hustings on ending violence against women and girls, Mandu Reid, leader of the Women’s Equality Party (WEP), did not hide her disappointment with the other participants. Why, she asked, was she the only mayoral contender to show up? Only weeks after Sarah Everard’s killing, were the major parties revealing how little they care about the violence that women face? Reid certainly thinks so, as she told me over Zoom recently. The 40-year-old, who has fronted the party since April 2019 and is the first person of colour to lead a British political party, is running with a manifesto that prioritises “building back equal”, as opposed to “better”. Action on violence against women and girls is a major plank, as is a “care revolution”.