Luke Thomas

The cost of medicine in America is astronomical.

But how have they gotten away with it?

Every election cycle, drug companies spend millions on campaign contributions to Republicans and Democrats to shape policy and protect their profits.

And members of Congress fall in line.

Well, first of all, because it's top of mind for my constituents.

I mean, health care costs are the number one issue in Georgia, the thing that folks raise with me the most when I'm out on the stump.

With the attacks on the Affordable Care Act, you've got health premiums skyrocketing.

More than a quarter of a million Georgians have lost their insurance altogether in recent months.

People are furious about drug companies ripping off the American people.

speeches that I've been giving at rallies across Georgia or this video we put out today, is we have to recognize that political corruption in the United States is systemic.

Yes, the Trump administration has taken overt, brazen corruption to a whole new level, and there has to be accountability for that.

But in some ways, in my view, Trump's rise is

is itself a symptom of the deeper systemic failure, especially since Citizens United, which just opened the floodgates to secret spending, billionaire spending, corporate spending on both sides of the aisle and has corrupted the policymaking process in a way that doesn't represent the interests of the American people.

And we can contain this present wickedness and contain...

the administration.

But if we don't fix this more fundamental thing, I think our republic is still going to be in a tough spot.

I think the most pernicious thing, the most destructive thing is the unlimited secret political defending.

I think that first of all, we can and we should try to get at it through statute.

And some of it is also a constitutional question.

But here's the thing.