Unintended consequences Quote by Bobby Akart

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access…

— Paul Farmer

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health…

— Marcia Angell

Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation of their…

— Marcia Angell

Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell…

— Olympia Snowe

I have long said that America needs to have a self-sufficient pharmaceutical supply chain to ensure we have safe and accessible access to our…

— Ronny Jackson

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more…

— Chuck Grassley

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and…

— Thabo Mbeki

Private companies mostly manufacture medications that resemble what we've already got. They get it patented and, with a hefty dose of marketing, a legion…

— Rutger Bregman

In a country as rich and remarkable as the United States, it is shameful that so many hardworking people have to ration their medicines,…

— Raphael Warnock

“The United States is one of only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs”

— H. Gilbert Welch

“The average American is unaware of this system—the patenting of drugs from nature, the renewal of patents based on insignificant changes, the aggressive marketing…

— Robert B. Reich

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

— Marcia Angell