Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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s almost a certainty that something big will change, but if nothing big did change it's a lock for the president to get re-elected. I think a couple more stories I saw but I haven't seen much follow up in the press and I think there's a reason for that. Yeah I believe the administration is looking to require pharmaceutical companies, the drug manufacturers who sell stuff in this country, to give…

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etc., if this stuff gets done and gets worked into the system by Election Day the president might be able to claim, just think about this, the president might be able to claim that he stopped the increase of healthcare expenses. Now that's not as good as universal healthcare insurance to people who have no insurance. They still would prefer that. But that's a really strong story if you're running for re-election and you're the first president who made healthcare costs stop in their tracks. Maybe even go down. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know how he doesn't get re-elected.

If somebody said is Viagra cheap yet? I believe it is. It's a generic. Why do we have to pay more because other countries have mismanaged their money? Somebody says well that's the whole point is that w

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e can do what's good for the United States because that's how countries are organized. They're organized to take care of themselves. And the idea is that if everybody did that the world's a better place. Then do university tuition. All right I'm just looking at your comments here. Generic drug companies caught conspiring to fix prices. Is that true? All right people are prompting me about a tweet…

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