Rep. Bernie Sanders, National Breast Cancer Coalition, Urge Senate Action on Drug Reimportation

Rep. Bernie Sanders, National Breast Cancer Coalition, Urge Senate Action on Drug Reimportation

Washington, DC - U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT), U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), other members of Congress, along with Fran Visco, President of the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), and breast cancer patient Juanita Farkas joined to urge the Senate to take action this year on prescription drug reimportation.

Sanders said, "As the first member of Congress to take constituents over the Canadian border to purchase prescription drugs at a fraction of the price charged in the U.S. and as the Representative of a state in which large numbers of seniors regularly purchase prescription drugs from Canada, this issue is obviously of huge importance to me. I will not ever forget the trip I took to Montreal in 1999, where women who were struggling with breast cancer were able to buy Tamoxifen, a widely prescribed breast cancer dug, at one tenth the price they were forced to pay at home. This, as members of the National Breast Cancer Coalition can tell you better than I can, is nothing short of a moral outrage and if the industry had any shame whatsoever it would have discontinued such egregious price-gouging on its own years ago."