“If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.” IfsWantCarePayQualityCompanyFieldsAmountDrugWasteAdvertisingHealth CareHospitalsMisgivingsDrug CompaniesQuality Service Author:Dave Obey
“It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.” StillsCompanyCitizensDrugEuropeCanadaGet AwayChargingDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street... I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.” BigsEnergyCompanyTakenStreetsBrotherWallDrugElementsComplexesEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.” SchoolBitsCompanyDrugHigh SchoolConcernedDrug Companies Author:John Oliver
“As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.” PeopleHas BeensTwoChoicesGivenBitsCompanyWeekIndustryDrugDevelopingLatterArticlesTwo WeeksNew YorkersPharmaceuticalAntibioticsAntidepressantsPharmaceutical IndustryDrug Companies Author:Bill Bryson
“Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is designed to encourage life- saving and health-improving treatments.” IfsWantShouldCompanySupportAmountDrugMarketingProfitSavingTreatmentImprovingReapUnreasonableLife SavingDrug Companies Author:Hillary Clinton
“AZT was never meant to treat HIV. It was meant to treat cancer and, when it was discovered to be toxic, the drug companies stopped clinic trials of the drug because it was so toxic. Is this drug really one we want to use?” WantUseCompanyDrugTreatsCancerTrialsToxicHivClinicDrug Companies Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang