Chuck Grassley Quotes

Competition is the best way to ensure prescription drugs are affordable.

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

We have protected our domestic industry far too long and they were happily dishing out substandard goods. Now, they see red when there is competition

When a company owns a drug, it has a responsibility to make sure that the drug is available to all who need it.

We took away government’s power to bring down the price of drugs using its buying power. Nonetheless, the Affordable Health Care Act is a great step forward.

As a doctor, my thing is, we need to have access to medications; we need to have reasonable prices for medications.

EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.

To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks.

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.

Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

Look with favor on the merchants of the land; always care for them; let no one order them about, for through their trading the land becomes prosperous ...

The only way you can stop the unregulated monopoly ... from gouging ... is to introduce competition.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

Under a system of free trade every branch of industry did not prosper.

The best industrial policy is competition.

My priorities are a fair trade policy in this country, increasing the minimum wage, going after the drug companies for the way that they charge and their whole pricing structure that have put absolutely amazing drugs out of reach for so many Americans.

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free market and some regulations which are essential in order to safeguard the interests of consumers and of people in general.

Affordability is critical so that patients have access to medicines. At the same time, it's also important that we have the kind of incentives that allow us to do the kinds of studies that we need to do to go after these diseases like Alzheimer's.

We at HHS are working with President Trump on a comprehensive plan to bring down the high price of prescription drugs.