Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug…

In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one…

— Noam Chomsky

I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies.…

— Timothy Noah

I am not in favor of implementing a Medicare-for-All, single payer healthcare system.

— Jaime Harrison

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

— Barack Obama

“Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were…

— Irving Kirsch

Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is…

— Hillary Clinton

When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million…

— Francis Collins

Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies,

— Sherrod Brown

Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push…

— Lawrence Lessig

People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much…

— Thomas Sowell

Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients.…

— Milton Glaser

If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill…

— Robert Bazell

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors…

— Chuck Grassley

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

— Mort Kondracke

In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.

— Ben Goldacre