president, it's not just lipitor, although lipitor is the most popular cholesterol-lowering drug, but zocor, 20-milligram tablet, same thing. $5.16, $2.45, u.s. price versus canadian price. and, mr. president, i just used canada because it's a close neighbor. i could have used spain, italy, france, germany, and by the way, some of our folks on the floor of the senate who will support the pharmaceutical industry's pricing policies are pricing their brand name drugs, the highest prices in the united states -- i don't support that, but some will. they will say well, you can't really do this and do it safely, allow people to access these f.d.a.-approved drugs from elsewhere. well, the fact is in europe, they have been doing it for 20 years. they have something called parallel trading. if you are in germany, want to buy a prescription drug from spain, no problem. if you're in italy, want to buy it from france, no problem. they have parallel trading of prescription drugs. the consumers have the freedom to buy it where it is least expensive. in our country, consumers don't have that freedom,