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Walter Kirn

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The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

And I've even seen people say, well, they're trying to solve immigration by killing all the people that would immigrate here. I mean, it's going to be hysterical like you haven't seen before.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

And I've even seen people say, well, they're trying to solve immigration by killing all the people that would immigrate here. I mean, it's going to be hysterical like you haven't seen before.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Wow. Frankly, I have tears in my eyes, not this moment, but I did, because I'll tell you why. The price of drugs, especially drugs that are for limited or sort of small diseases that don't create a big market, you know, where the cost can't be spread across a lot of patients, can be absolutely ruinous. You say $1,000 a prescription. Let's talk $200,000.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Wow. Frankly, I have tears in my eyes, not this moment, but I did, because I'll tell you why. The price of drugs, especially drugs that are for limited or sort of small diseases that don't create a big market, you know, where the cost can't be spread across a lot of patients, can be absolutely ruinous. You say $1,000 a prescription. Let's talk $200,000.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Wow. Frankly, I have tears in my eyes, not this moment, but I did, because I'll tell you why. The price of drugs, especially drugs that are for limited or sort of small diseases that don't create a big market, you know, where the cost can't be spread across a lot of patients, can be absolutely ruinous. You say $1,000 a prescription. Let's talk $200,000.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, there are drugs for things like hepatitis and for various cancers and so on that are shocking. There are Rolls Royce. And we're going to change lives here. We're going to prevent families from going into bankruptcy. We're going to cut the budget. And. Lastly, there has been talk about pharma ads on TV. It is not just Congress that pharma controls, Megan.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, there are drugs for things like hepatitis and for various cancers and so on that are shocking. There are Rolls Royce. And we're going to change lives here. We're going to prevent families from going into bankruptcy. We're going to cut the budget. And. Lastly, there has been talk about pharma ads on TV. It is not just Congress that pharma controls, Megan.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

I mean, there are drugs for things like hepatitis and for various cancers and so on that are shocking. There are Rolls Royce. And we're going to change lives here. We're going to prevent families from going into bankruptcy. We're going to cut the budget. And. Lastly, there has been talk about pharma ads on TV. It is not just Congress that pharma controls, Megan.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

It's MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the other cable news networks that we're all familiar with through carrying about 70% of the weight with their advertising in some cases. Now, that influence totally deformed our COVID response and maybe guided it to some extent, if you really want to be.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

It's MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the other cable news networks that we're all familiar with through carrying about 70% of the weight with their advertising in some cases. Now, that influence totally deformed our COVID response and maybe guided it to some extent, if you really want to be.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

It's MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the other cable news networks that we're all familiar with through carrying about 70% of the weight with their advertising in some cases. Now, that influence totally deformed our COVID response and maybe guided it to some extent, if you really want to be.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

serious about it that influence is gone you can't advertise if you don't have the money and that money that big giant pot of profits that was on a five dollar drug uh you know 995 dollars it goes or whatever is not going to be poured into these influence operations going forward except in the short term because there's no way they want this to come to to come to pass

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

serious about it that influence is gone you can't advertise if you don't have the money and that money that big giant pot of profits that was on a five dollar drug uh you know 995 dollars it goes or whatever is not going to be poured into these influence operations going forward except in the short term because there's no way they want this to come to to come to pass

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

serious about it that influence is gone you can't advertise if you don't have the money and that money that big giant pot of profits that was on a five dollar drug uh you know 995 dollars it goes or whatever is not going to be poured into these influence operations going forward except in the short term because there's no way they want this to come to to come to pass

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Well, here's a case of a non-American company, a Danish company that's stiffing the United States, but not the country next door, Germany. Why is that?

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Well, here's a case of a non-American company, a Danish company that's stiffing the United States, but not the country next door, Germany. Why is that?

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Well, here's a case of a non-American company, a Danish company that's stiffing the United States, but not the country next door, Germany. Why is that?

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Well, but, Megan, they have been acting poor and developing almost since World War Two. And for a while they were they were devastated by war, you know, for several decades and trying to get back on their feet. But the truth is we have been subsidizing European socialized medical programs. In other words, and in so many ways we've been doing that.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Well, but, Megan, they have been acting poor and developing almost since World War Two. And for a while they were they were devastated by war, you know, for several decades and trying to get back on their feet. But the truth is we have been subsidizing European socialized medical programs. In other words, and in so many ways we've been doing that.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

Well, but, Megan, they have been acting poor and developing almost since World War Two. And for a while they were they were devastated by war, you know, for several decades and trying to get back on their feet. But the truth is we have been subsidizing European socialized medical programs. In other words, and in so many ways we've been doing that.