Bigs Quote by Al Franken

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

— David Keene

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors…

— Marty Meehan

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

— Robert Reich

A lot of politicians talked about giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices, which will help millions of Americans. Not a single…

— Neera Tanden

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What…

— Paul Ryan

The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.

— John Kitzhaber

We need to work on drug costs, and there's things we can work on on drug costs, especially Medicare Part D, to bring drug…

— Tim Kaine

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

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

With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.

— Amy Klobuchar

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being…

— Paul Ryan

Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs,…

— Jerry Brown