Richard Ojeda 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.

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

People shouldn't be forced to chose between paying for rent or paying for medication. They deserve a government ready to take on Big Pharma by implementing health coverage, starting by extending pharmacare coverage to every Canadian.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

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

The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.

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

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

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

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.

I am attached to an incredible script called 'Wonder Drug,' about the DES drug disaster. It's a female-based drama, and I am so proud to be a part of because hopefully it will help evoke change - not only in our industry, but in the battle again corruption in big pharma.

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.

The pharmaceutical industry is spending $1 billion more each year on marketing and lobbying than it does on developing new and better drugs.

You know the pharmaceutical industry. If they are involved with any deal with the government, they are not going to lose any money.

Blame me for capitalism. Blame me for EpiPen.

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

A vigorous and profitable drug industry is not a problem to be solved but a goal to be encouraged.

I think Trump's going to make it easier to be a drug company in America.

The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.

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

If we're going to tackle the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs, along with so many other issues that are at the top of our community's mind, we need to reform our system and make it work for the people, not special interests and corporations.

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.