Michael K. Simpson Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

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

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.

It has been a top priority of Congress to reduce the drug costs of all seniors.

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.

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.

It’s our tax dollars that fund the initial research for these molecules that get transferred to corporations. We have an investment here… We end up paying for our drugs twice. We pay for the initial development through our tax dollars. And then when it goes on the market we pay their inflated prices.

We can't just say the right thing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs: we have to do the right thing, too.

The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.

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

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

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

There are no issues more personal than prescription drugs and the high prices Americans must pay to get the medicine they need.

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

The cost of prescription drugs in this country is far, far higher than in any other country. You may recall that Donald Trump as a candidate for president talked about how he was going to take on the pharmaceutical industry and it was going to lower prescription drug costs.