REMARKS
Council Member Schulman Advocates for Accessibility of New Injectable Medications
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Council Member Lynn Schulman talks about the potential of injectable medications for cholesterol and high blood pressure, underlining their benefits for women's health and cost-effectiveness. She suggests exploring ways to make these medications accessible to all, drawing parallels with the administration's proactive approaches in health care.
Speaker 2
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I haven't had a chance to talk to the commissioner about this yet, but there is a new phenomenon of injectables for medications.
0:52:22
I take 1 for cholesterol, for a very high cholesterol.
0:52:26
We need to make that available to the masses.
0:52:28
And just like, you know, this administration was very forward thinking in the Rest in Peace debt and putting money towards that.
0:52:35
If there's a way that we can do this to cut down on cardiovascular disease and other thing for women, there's actually something in the pipeline because they do a lot of reading on this.
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Is for high blood pressure and about it's now in the 2nd year of the clinical, 2nd phase of the clinical trial.
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There's gonna be an injectable where you get every 6 months in injection that will totally control your high blood pressure.
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So these are things we need to really take a look at that can help a lot of people and be cost effective.
0:53:05
So I just wanted to put that out there.
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And with that, I'm gonna Okay.
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I was gonna the council member, men, and has some questions for you.
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Thank you.
Speaker 5
0:53:16
Okay.
Speaker 6
0:53:16
Oh, thank you so much.
0:53:17
I really wanna thank the chairs for this very important hearing.