Heidi Gardner | The Check In: Prescription Drug Prices
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a break from breaking news to check in on the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, which President Trump claimed he would be able to fix.
Then, SNL's Heidi Gardner talks about working with Will Forte on Alien News Desk, bringing characters to life on Weekend Update and her life before SNL. She also takes a few more questions backstage at Studio 8G.
Also: Don't miss Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel live in Austin at SXSW.
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| 1:04.2 | Late Night with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth talks to Saturday Night Lives Heidi Gardner. |
| 1:08.8 | Plus, just for this podcast, Heidi takes a few more questions backstage at Studio AG. |
| 1:13.4 | But first, Seth checks in on the debate over prescription drug costs under the Trump administration. |
| 1:18.4 | President Trump claimed he would be able to fix an issue that both Democrats and Republicans |
| 1:26.1 | can agree on the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs. But while one party has a plan, the other |
| 1:31.0 | party will, they have Trump for more. This is the check-in. |
| 1:39.0 | For years, prescription drug prices in this country have been soaring, largely because our |
| 1:43.2 | government, for the most part, does not negotiate the price of medication. That means pharmaceutical |
| 1:48.1 | companies can charge whatever they want. Things have gotten so bad that some Americans are forced to go |
| 1:52.5 | abroad to get life-saving medication like insulin, and one of those destinations abroad is fairly |
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