Commodity Quote by Ivan Illich

in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a…

— Angela Davis

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit,…

— Norman Bethune

“Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry the number one money-maker as physicians nurture a nation…

— Sherry Rogers

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

— George W. Merck

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an affordable price,…

— Thomas Pogge

Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease,…

— James Morcan

“If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products that did…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“countries are producing medications for their own citizens, not ours. This is one of the unintended consequences of outsourcing a manufacturing process as critical…

— Bobby Akart

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Competition on value must revolve around results. The results that matter are patient outcomes per unit of cost at the medical condition level.”

— Michael E. Porter

“What makes the situation so outrageous is that the healthcare industry has traditionally encouraged the American public to be passive consumers—to wait for developing…

— Elaine R. Ferguson