Lucy McBath Quotes

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

To drive down high drug costs, we need to shine a light on the negotiations between drug manufacturers, middleman negotiators and pharmacies.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

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

With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.

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

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

Prescription drugs today represent 60¢ on every dollar spent for health care. Ten years ago it was only 10¢.

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

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

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

How long do we have to keep fighting for affordable prescription drugs?

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.

There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere.

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

There's no way we're going to have low cost health insurance in a world of high cost medicine.

The high price of medicines is crippling healthcare systems and denying people access to the treatments they so desperately need.

Lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the most important things Congress can do to help people in western Pennsylvania.

I don't like protecting pharmaceutical industries and increasing their profits and making our drugs cost more. If the U.S. Democrats could get rid of those problems I'd be much happier.

I think we can build broad bipartisan support for bringing down prescription drug costs.

Whether it's a mom worrying about affording insulin for her children or a cancer patient fearing bankruptcy due the price of his life-saving medications, the number one issue Kansans talk to me about is the cost of health care and prescription drugs.

If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.

I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

We need to work on drug costs, and there's things we can work on on drug costs, especially Medicare Part D, to bring drug costs down.