Xavier Becerra is still avoiding specifics as Election Day nears

We'll certainly look to see if there's a way to continue to reduce costs, but the most important thing when you talk about death penalty is to make sure we get it right. What should our policy be? Because we're talking about the possible taking of a life through the death penalty. So cost is critical, always critical, but the most important thing, get it right. So it would require the voice of the people to make any changes and so that would require us to really go to the public and try to search with them for a good solution and ask them to participate in making the changes that we need. Most likely the ballot measure that would probably be the way that you you get the voice of the people to be speaking on. We could certainly consider that. Right now what I want to do is make sure we continue the moratorium. And I want to deal with the things that are most important right now to the people of California affordability making sure their housing their health care Their groceries they can afford them and so first things first keep in mind what the families of California are saying I think we could explore going much farther. I don't think there's anyone who would argue with you that the cost of our medications are too high. And so we could be strategic. We can work to try to negotiate down those prices. We can use the leverage of the state of California with so many people that we can make sure that we are competing to get the best price for the various medications that our people need. We did it when I was in the federal government with The vaccines, we did it as well with things like insulin. Today, you can get insulin in the Medicare program for $35 or less when it was costing $100, $150 at the time. We did it in negotiating some of the highest-priced drugs for cancer, for heart disease, down in price up to 80%. We can do these things. We just have to use the power, the leverage of the state government to try to bring those prices down. I would definitely try to put it on steroids. I guess that's a bit of a pun, right? We'll take a close look. You want to take a look at the drugs that are used in abundance by the people of California. So you could try to negotiate drugs, not just for a small class, but for a group that will cover many, many Californians. So everyone will experience a price drop. We can see what that might be. But everyone's talked about things like naloxone, which is a drug that helps prevent overdose. We could take a closer look at some of the more common medications that are now out there. And it could be Easier for the state of California to make the production and purchase of those far easier than to be able to pass those savings on to California. Again, you would take a look at the prescription medications that are easiest to target because they are universal in their use and they've been out for a while, so the restrictions legally in trying to negotiate lower prices would be removed. And so it's one of those things where you take a look at the drugs that would best be subject to that type of negotiation or approach. I think we have to grow it. I think we have to make better use of it. I believe that if we do it right, we can send people, move people into a path that gets them stood back up so they don't go back on the streets. It gives them an opportunity to live a life of dignity. But we have to do it right, and that means we have to make sure that the services are provided to folks who go through the care courts.