Sanders CALLS OUT Wegovy, Ozempic CEO For Price-Gouging Americans

Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen was grilled by Sen. Bernie Senators about why Americans are being charged 9 times more than other countries for Wegovy and Ozempic. John Iadarola and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Your Support is Crucial to the Show: go.tyt.com/joi...
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"Novo Nordisk’s top executive faced a Senate grilling on Tuesday over the high prices of the company’s weight loss drug Wegovy and diabetes treatment Ozempic, as demand for both injections soars in the U.S.
Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen did not explicitly promise lawmakers at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., that he would slash prices for the two drugs."
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[@smile4Jack]

Bernie should have replaced Biden and not Harris

[@gdaymates431]

It's important for diabetes but also so important for weight loss because it's prevention against diabetes.

[@jessetorres8738]

Price gouging of pharmaceutical drugs makes no sense to me; if you as a company charge medications so much that many potential customers can't afford them, then how are you going to make money off those medications in the long-term with only the wealthy top percentage of the population being able to afford them? I think The U.S. Federal Government needs to have some form of price control to ensure that we don't pay an absurd amount for prescriptions compared to other developed countries. If a bottle of pills in say Germany costs $6.00, that same bottle of pills shouldn't cost more then 50% extra here in The U.S., which would be $9.00 in this case. I'm not saying pharmaceutical companies don't deserve to make profit for their research & development, but they shouldn't be able to charge insane prices for their life saving products that most uninsured Americans can't afford.

[@somdutta7322]

I hope Bernie lives for ever, a warrior for the people like him comes once in a generation.

[@MillennialDiligence-sx8re]

Every wannabe influencer in the US is taking this stuff!

[@thebirdclan]

Ok?

[@Matty-o9p]

The progressive movement is a laughing stock because of Bernie and The Squad.

[@JoeyVOV]

Thank God for Bernie Sanders

[@michaeltaylor8204]

$133 Australian per mnth private prescription. $33 _ health care card.

[@johnnylafayette]

U.s. dollar have no value anymore

[@JankeyCreator]

do yall have data on how many people close videos when Cenk comes on and does his annoying pitch?

[@user-pd8lc3ow6x]

Bernie Sanders is the president we deserved.

[@BillCarson-zn9gx]

We get what we deserve

[@deborahmagana5039]

Great show

[@cecefoley2411]

Go Bernie!

[@RMLane-os8ci]

Basically medication no one should need but government health insurance is eager to pay for :(

[@RMLane-os8ci]

Clearly Sanders has to address this drug because it alone at current rates of prescriptions bankrupts any universal healthcare statistical model.

[@thebirdclan]

No one is eager to pay for this. People are getting turned down left and right

[@genreartwithjb5095]

How did this turn into a bash Bernie Sanders segment? Cooked Anna

[@Embargoman]

Yeah, in a way people get these same medication cheaper in Japan.

[@jinxai83]

Lol wow, business corruption. What a joke

[@ShockedGuy863]

I despise my Washington state senators

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Terrible!

[@organicgroove23]

Great video and informative. !!

[@GraemeOwen-u6k]

Your health system is a joke

[@johnnylafayette]

When it costs more to print the dollar than the dollar itself. Capitalism has failed

[@dons2318]

I'm diabetic. I pay $11.20 monthly for Ozempic. But I live on a measly SSA stipend

[@BillCarson-zn9gx]

They need the money so they can continue their gain of function endeavors

[@wraithofsolidarity]

He ain't woke... not woke of the weak

[@debraalleyne1760]

Many insurance companies won't even approve people to get the drug even if they have diabetes. They don't want to pay that.

[@1967JAB]

My mother on Medicare can get ozempic for $25 a month, myself with a high deductible insurance through my company is about $900.

[@garwynrosser8907]

There's a follow up problem here, too. Even if you believe this company has the right to charge whatever they want, you now have to issue of the abuse of patents and the ability of corporations to actively prevent competition... Which should, according to your own capitalist belief system, make it cheaper. There won't be generic brands of these drugs, because competition is a problem for the drug companies.

[@user-pd8lc3ow6x]

I have an injury to the right calf muscle that’s resulted in severe muscle atrophy and calcification that can’t be undone through surgery or other measures. Due to PCOS I’ve gained almost 50 pounds and can’t even work out to reduce the weight. My doctor prescribed me Wegovy and another comparable drug in an effort to help me with the weight loss and prevent diabetes. Insurance company denied it and the out of pocket amount is $1,300. The fact that this is even legal is insane.

[@AnonemesisRecords]

What is weird is Bernie doesn't go on Cspan and call out his colleagues donors.

[@thebirdclan]

He has

[@debraalleyne1760]

Many insurance companies won't even approve people to get the drug even if yhey have diabetes. They don't want to pay that.

[@PE773]

bc ole school insulin is still widely available

[@CowPokeCash]

I like Bernie for being a fighter and for being conservative in this instance. I like Trump too, for his willingness to fight and work with Kennedy, an effort to fix the poisonous soil and food issues in the US.

[@thebirdclan]

What Trump ain't about fixing the soil

[@CowPokeCash]

@@thebirdclan It's why Trump and Kennedy are working together. Kennedy didn't want to work with Trump at first but his wife convinced him that he should. Because it is a serious issue and an opportunity to do something good for the country. The democrats won't do it.

[@user-pd8lc3ow6x]

This absolutely unAmerican name of this CEO is easy to pronounce but Kamala is hard for most Americans to say eh? Sure Ana you’re an Independent.