Dr. Mehmet Oz

He did the same thing with pharmaceuticals.

He said there's an external threat, which is Russia or foreign governments.

There's internal threats like cancer.

So we want everyone to chip in.

We pay in the United States 0.8% of our GDP towards pharmaceutical products.

Yeah, thank you.

I only bring this up because the percentages make a difference here, 0.8%.

I know.

We're going to pay less.

The Europeans, we are telling all the countries, we're in the middle of these discussions.

We've just gotten the British to say yes, and other countries are talking to us about the fact that they pay 0.3%.

So less than half of what we pay percent-wise is being spent by them.

And they get away with it because their people don't realize that if you get cancer, more advanced cancers in Europe, your survival rate's way below the U.S.

And if you don't get access to the drugs, which they don't for several years on average, that we get in the U.S., yes, you can get it for cheaper, but your people are paying a price.

And this is going to be the most important message that I'm going to deliver today.

The most important message is don't think about health care like an expense.

Think of it as an investment.

Because if I can get the average American to work one year longer because I got the medication at a better price, they didn't turn away at the drugstore or because we were able to do something else.

Correct.

Morbilities.