Quotes About Pharmaceuticals

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

Drugs should be available for cheap prices for patients.

Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices on prescriptions.

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.

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 war.

Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India.

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.

And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

A gramme in time saves time

A gramme is better than a damn.

At the end of the story, Dr Moffat shook his head sadly. "I'm afraid that the only conclusion we can reach is that this Dr Lubega is substituting a cheap generic for a costly drug but charging his patients the full cost." "And that would harm them?" she asked. "It could," said Dr Moffat. "Some of the generics are all right, but others do not necessarily do what they're meant to.

Multinational pharmaceutical companies spend many billions of dollars a year on research, and often have very little to show for it.

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

And recall, it was the FDA that approved Vioxx, which led to more than sixty thousand deaths.

nevertheless pleaded guilty to criminal charges and paid a $3 billion fine for promoting its antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug. It was the largest settlement recorded involving a pharmaceutical company. The agreement also included civil penalties for improper marketing of a half-dozen

Ninety-seven percent of the time, chemotherapy does not work and continues to be used only for one reason—doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money from it. That's the only reason chemotherapy

it's fair to wonder whether pharmaceutical corporations may have manipulated the WHO in an effort to sell swine flu vaccine. These companies had invested millions of dollars researching and developing

Plus, it was made by Zaxy, the company behind Smartifex, Brillicent, and other popular work enhancement drugs.

The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.

The way we have looked at pricing at Merck is we've always said we want to be responsible, which means we want to optimize profitability and patient access.