Bernie Sanders on Ozempic Prices in the U.S. and Europe

A month's supply of Ozempic, get this,

it costs almost $1,000 in the U.S.,

compared to $59 in Germany.

And Senator Sanders is joining us now.

Senator, great to have you here with us.

We have talked about this issue before.

There is a huge demand for these drugs,

but it'll be really hard to pay for them, right?

When you question the Novo Nordisk CEO,

what answers will you be after?

Well, we basically want to know why

he is charging the American people 10 or 15 times

more for the same exact product that he's charging people in Europe,

Canada, and elsewhere.

And I think, basically, he may say it or not,

the answer is,

he can do it in the United States

because he can get away with it.

Other countries have strong laws, they negotiate prices.

In America, historically, until very recently,

drug companies could charge us any price they want.

And in the case of Ozempic and Mugabe,

we're dealing with the need to deal with

epidemics in diabetes and obesity,

costing us lives,

costing us a lot of suffering,

and huge amounts of money treating these illnesses.

So you have a good drug.

They have got to make this drug affordable for the American people

so that we can begin to deal

in an effective way with diabetes and obesity.

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