“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
“The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.” BigsMightCompanyPiecesHugeDrugBillsFundLegislationTaxpayersPrescriptionsMedicarePharmaceuticalPrescription DrugsPharmaceutical Companies Author:Al Franken
“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
“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'” CompanyDrugCustomersSoftwareUsersDealerDrug DealersSoftware Company Author:Edward Tufte
“When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.” CertainResponsibilityCompanyDrugAssumingProfitTrialsMarginsClinicalsBlockbusterProfit MarginClinical Trials Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“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
“If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksTodayPoorPayCompanyProduceDrugReasonableDeniedPoor PeopleRoyaltyPatents Author:Yusuf Hamied
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“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
“Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return.” SimpleCompanyProductsReturnCostDrugEconomicsDollarsComplexesBillionsTraditionalSufficientExpensiveFundVenturePharmaceuticalTailored Author:David Mixner
“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