[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H316-H317]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SKYROCKETING PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS

  (Ms. CRAIG asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, 1 year ago I started a healthcare listening 
tour across Minnesota's Second Congressional District. Whether it is 
Wabasha or Burnsville, the issue is the same.
  The cost of lifesaving prescription drugs is skyrocketing. Over the 
past 2

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decades, the cost of insulin has risen 600 percent, a lifesaving drug 
that more than 350,000 Minnesotans rely on.
  That is unacceptable and that is why I have introduced the Emergency 
Access to Insulin Act, to make insulin more affordable, and hold big 
drug companies accountable for jacking up insulin prices and making 
other lifesaving drugs unaffordable for Minnesota families.
  Over the past 10 years, the cost of Canasa, a medicine for Crohn's 
disease, has increased by 150 percent. That is why I have cosponsored 
61 bills to address skyrocketing healthcare costs.
  We do not have the luxury of standing by any longer while 3 in 10 
Minnesotans are rationing their medicine. It is time to sit down with 
my colleagues and lower the cost of healthcare.

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