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Dr. Mehmet Oz

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The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

And for that reason, we now have a bunch of contracts with pharmaceutical companies where they agree voluntarily

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

to reduce their prices so they're the most favored nation pricing here in America.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

It's fair.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

It works.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

It turns out that these companies have maintained their valuations.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

They haven't been hurt by these deals, even though they've taken significant financial haircuts.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

The president wants Congress to codify what we already believe works.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

We don't want to go any further.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

We don't want to cause any more problems for any pharmaceutical companies, for any parts of these negotiations.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

We just want to

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

grandfather in people who have been there and make sure that going forward in future administrations, the drug companies stay committed to this deal structure and that the U.S.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

government doesn't overreach its needs and start to do crazy things like cap prices in the pharma space that actually would hurt their innovation.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

So that's the big first step, number one, most favored nation, acronym MFN, you'll be hearing that a lot.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

Second big area, how do you make insurance companies accountable?

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

Well, first off, the money that they're getting, it's

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

This is a good example for the Affordable Care Act, as the president calls it, the Unaffordable Care Act, is a problem because they just take the money, their valuations go up.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

The money actually, eventually, some of it gets down to the people, but premiums still keep rising.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

So the president said, from now on, we want the money going to the people.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

We want to make sure that as much as possible, we drive down prices in the insurance space fairly.

The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2348 - What I Learned From Sitting With Gavin Newsom

And there's a way of doing that called cost sharing reduction.