
“When we started the legislative session in Florida in 2019, our speaker of the House, Jose Oliva, here with me, he had a big healthcare agenda,” DeSantis said. “He really wanted to do something big on prescription drugs. … But I told Jose, ‘Listen, we’ve got to find a way where we will actually be able to accomplish something. I don’t want to just throw a flare up there and then virtue signal that we’re doing some about drugs, and nothing works.‘”