Sen. Sanders to Newsmax: Americans ‘Ripped Off’ by Big Pharma

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., detailed his decades-long battle with the pharmaceutical industry, telling Newsmax on Thursday that “Americans are getting ripped off” by big pharma paying the “highest prices in the world” for prescription drugs.  

Sanders took aim at the diabetes drug Ozempic, which at a more affordable price in the U.S. could save 40,000 lives per year, Sanders said on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”

“We are paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs,” said Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate. “I’ve taken trips of Americans over the Canadian border where in some cases we have bought the same exact product for one-tenth of the price in Canada compared to the United States. And in fact, prices around the world are even less expensive than in Canada. 

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