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  • And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine. -- Mort Kondracke
  • One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public. -- Irving Kirsch
  • Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die. -- John Stossel
  • In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry. -- Ben Goldacre
  • If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy. -- Chuck Grassley
  • Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. -- Jim Clyburn
  • Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business. -- Alex Berenson
  • New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer. -- John Lynch
  • It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies. -- Bernie Sanders
  • The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors. -- Chuck Grassley
  • Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than they do on marketing and administration, and afterwards they actually keep more in profits. -- Marcia Angell
  • We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes. -- Leroy Hood
  • Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do? -- Will Self
  • There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions. -- Ben Goldacre
  • If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies. -- Dave Obey
  • Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous. -- Alex Gibney
  • When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies. -- Chellie Pingree
  • As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them. -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not. -- Richard J. Roberts
  • They're just beginning to change - Drug companies. -- Joe Biden
  • Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users' -- Edward Tufte
  • Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies, -- Sherrod Brown
  • Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies. -- Barack Obama
  • When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Let's fix what's broken about Obamacare, but let's not throw it away and give it all back to the insurance companies and the drug companies. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends-\-\they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there. -- John Oliver
  • Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure. -- Barton Gellman
  • Do you want to know why marijuana is illegal? Because the drug companies want marijuana to be illegal. You see, if it came down to Prozak versus Marijuana, Prozak would lose. -- Bill Maher
  • Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is designed to encourage life- saving and health-improving treatments. -- Hillary Clinton
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