Answer Quote by John Kitzhaber

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

— Neal Boortz

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

— John Kitzhaber

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

The high price of medicines is crippling healthcare systems and denying people access to the treatments they so desperately need.

— Winnie Byanyima

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

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

— Noam Chomsky

There will always be a need for medications and operations, but I do believe costs can be dramatically reduced by improving people's health from…

— Joshua Rosenthal

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

Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay…

— John Lewis

We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and…

— Matthew Heineman

The value that the generic drug industry brings to the U.S. healthcare system is indisputable.

— Heather Bresch