Alternatives Quote by Margot Kidder

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

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

Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs.…

— Marcia Angell

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

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

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

Pharma has a lot of lobbies and a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power and there's very little bidding on drugs. America…

— Donald Trump

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

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

— Chuck Grassley

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to…

— Noam Chomsky

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

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.

— Heather Bresch