White House August 29, 2023
2:24 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Please — (applause) — sit down. I look around the room, and this is a long time in coming. (Laughter.)
Bill, we started doing this 25, 30 years ago, seeing if we could do something about these outrageous prices, give people a fighting chance. Unless you needed the drugs yourself or knew someone who did, it wasn’t as real. But, boy, we’ve been fighting Big Pharma for a long time — a long, long time.
And, Steven, as my mother would say, “God love you, son.” You’ve been through one hell of an ordeal. Your story is a familiar one for too many Americans. Instead of using all your energy to fight the disease,...
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