--- title: Hillary Clinton Goes After Pharmaceutical Abuses in New Ad description: Hillary Clinton is taking on the pharmaceutical industry in a new ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire canonical: https://time.com/4053191/hillary-clinton-pharma-abuse/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-28T23:41:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:02.646Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Goes After Pharmaceutical Industry Abuses og:description: A new television focuses on her proposed reforms to the industry og:url: https://time.com/4053191/hillary-clinton-pharma-abuse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Goes After Pharmaceutical Industry Abuses twitter:description: A new television focuses on her proposed reforms to the industry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hillary Clinton Goes After Pharmaceutical Industry Abuses in New Ad by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Sep 28, 2015 11:41 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Sep 28, 2015 11:41 PM UTC Hillary Clinton is taking on the pharmaceutical industry in a new ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire, where she highlights her role in publicizing the dramatic increase in the drug Daraprim and her drug industry reform proposal. The advertisement, which is going live a week after the New York _Times_ reported the price of a pill skyrocketed from $13.50 to $750 when a hedge fund manager bought the producer, shows Clinton calling for a plan to “crack down” on drug company abuses. “It is time to deal with skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs,” the advertisement shows Clinton saying at a September 21 campaign event. The ad also features a Fox News commentator saying the former hedge fund manager, Martin Shkreli “may be lowering” the price “after Hillary Clinton blasted him out of the water.” The 30-second ad is part of the campaigns ongoing buy in Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton has made reducing out-of-pocket drug costs and curbing pharmaceutical industry abuses a major part of her campaign this month. **Read more:** [Clinton and Sanders Offer Competing Visions of Health Care](http://time.com/4043242/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-health-care/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4053191/hillary-clinton-pharma-abuse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4053191/hillary-clinton-pharma-abuse/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Goes After Pharmaceutical Industry Abuses in New Ad","datePublished":"2015-09-28T23:41:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:02.646Z","description":"Clinton wants to reduce out-of-pocket drug costs","url":"https://time.com/4053191/hillary-clinton-pharma-abuse/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4053191/hillary-clinton-pharma-abuse/","name":"Hillary Clinton Goes After Pharmaceutical Industry Abuses in New Ad"}}]}] ```