Senator Rick Scott
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We know most of the products that are made in communist China are not up to our standards.
There's no FDA inspections in China and India.
There's a study out of the University of Indiana that says you have over 60% increased chance of death and hospitalization if you take a generic drug from India and China.
So it's unsafe, but we shouldn't be relying on them because they could hold them all back whenever they want to.
Shouldn't you know where your drugs come from?
So this bill would basically tell you on the label through a QR code where the ingredients are coming from and where it's manufactured.
Right now, our military, our elderly, anybody that's dependent on a generic drug is at risk.
So we have two options.
Either we're going to have to do it through reconciliation, which only takes Republican votes, and we ought to do it for 10 years so this never happens again, or we've got to come to our senses, get rid of the filibuster, and start passing things on a majority vote.