Affluent Quote by Thomas Pogge

The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we…

— Thomas Pogge

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

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

With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the…

— Thomas Pogge

We are a wealthy country. We also are the global engine of innovation in health care, whether it's the pharmaceutical industry or the creation…

— Ron Williams

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

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

Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even…

— David Mixner

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

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

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

I have successfully challenged the Western world's existing model of pharmaceutical innovation, which leads to the creation of monopolistic markets for novel, life-saving drugs…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw