Enough Quote by Kevin Hassett

We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get…

— Jill Stein

The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances,…

— Robert Jarvik

Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized…

— Anna Quindlen

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

— James B. Utt

So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they…

— Donald Kennedy

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

“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

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

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major…

— Pierre Bosquet

Most drugs sold in the U.S. are produced outside of the country, and if we can ensure supply-chain safety for these drugs, introducing more…

— Mike Braun

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 don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

— John Kitzhaber