00:00Yeah, Mr. President.
00:02Daniel, go ahead.
00:03Yep.
00:03One of the best reporters in Washington.
00:05Go ahead.
00:05Thank you, sir.
00:06Dr. Oz referenced this a little early.
00:08Two questions on healthcare, if I can.
00:09The Council of Economic Advisers released a report
00:12saying that the most favored nation drug deals
00:14generate about $529 billion in domestic savings
00:19over the next 10 years across all markets.
00:22How transformative are these?
00:24And it makes people better.
00:25Yeah, it does.
00:26How transformative are these deals
00:28for millions of Americans?
00:29And do you believe that the most favored nation drug deals
00:33are the Republicans' golden ticket to the midterms?
00:36I think the Republicans should walk away with the midterms.
00:39Now, typically, whoever is president,
00:42they vote the other way.
00:43Nobody knows this.
00:44Do we have a psychiatrist in the group?
00:47Nobody knows why,
00:48because I think we've had the best president.
00:49A lot of people have said,
00:50even some radical left lunatics have said that
00:53we've had the best presidency,
00:55the best first year of any president.
00:56Look, I stopped eight wars, got the largest tax cuts in history,
01:00the largest regulation cuts in history.
01:02All the things we've done,
01:03so many, like all of this that we've done,
01:05medically we've done so much.
01:08You know, we did a thing called Right to Try,
01:11in my first.
01:11And I could never understand it when I was a civilian,
01:14which wasn't so long ago.
01:16I haven't been doing it that long,
01:17but I always used to marvel at the fact that
01:19if they had a great drug and it had to go through the FDA,
01:24and the FDA guarded it and said,
01:26you can't use it.
01:28And if a person was terminally ill
01:30and the drug was showing great promise,
01:32the person is terminally ill,
01:34they wouldn't give it to the person,
01:35because they didn't want to hurt the person.
01:37And I said, well, we need something on that.
01:39And it was very important to me.
01:40And I had no idea it would be so hard to get,
01:43but we got it in total.
01:44We got it in full.
01:46It's called Right to Try.
01:47That if you're terminally ill,
01:49you have the right to try a drug
01:52that has not gone even anywhere near final.
01:55If it shows even a little promise.
01:57And we've saved thousands of lives.
01:59It was very hard to get,
02:00because the insurance companies didn't want it,
02:02the doctors didn't want it,
02:03because the doctors didn't want to be blamed.
02:06The drug companies didn't want it,
02:08because if it didn't work,
02:09they didn't want it on their record.
02:11So what we did is we said,
02:13we're not going to count it on your record.
02:14If somebody is terminally ill
02:15and they take the drug,
02:16it doesn't work,
02:17we're not going to count it on your record.
02:18We'll have another record,
02:19you know, a little smaller one
02:20that not a lot of people look at.
02:22But we're not going to count it on your record.
02:24So Right to Try has been one of the great successes.
02:27Again, nobody talks about it.
02:29We've saved thousands of lives on us.
02:31But you know what is maybe even more important?
02:34We've learned very quickly
02:35that some drugs work and some drugs don't.
02:37In other words, some drugs take a person
02:40who's terminally ill,
02:41and there are numerous cases.
02:45And without waiting seven years, ten years,
02:48by the way, we think we've cut it in half.
02:50But you do need a period of time.
02:52Without waiting many, many years,
02:55we know the drug works,
02:57because we've taken people that were dead.
02:59We had a person given the last rites, God.
03:03The kids are crying,
03:05and started them on this drug,
03:08and the person became better.
03:10It works, you know?
03:12And some don't work.
03:13But you learn really fast.
03:15It's called the ultimate test, I think, right?
03:17You know, they test all these things.
03:19They use animals all over the place.
03:21They use everything to test.
03:23A person is going to die.
03:26So they didn't want it because they didn't want to be sued for,
03:29you know, the drug companies didn't want to be sued
03:31if it didn't work.
03:32The country didn't want to be sued.
03:33So I got everybody into a room,
03:35and I said, we're going to do this,
03:36but if anybody uses it, they have to sign a document.
03:39They signed a very strong document
03:41that they're not going to sue the doctor.
03:42They're not going to sue the country.
03:45They're not going to sue the manufacturer,
03:47the pharmaceutical company.
03:48They're not going to sue anybody.
03:49But we're going to give it a shot.
03:51It has been, right to try, it's been so successful.
03:54It's been amazing.
03:55Nobody talks about it, but everyone knows how successful it is.
03:58Mr. President.
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