Drug Cost Quotes

When Kansans go to the pharmacy to pick up their medication, they deserve a fair deal on their drug prices.

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.

As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'

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.

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not built on the premise of consumerism.

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

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

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

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

90 percent of the cost of malaria drugs has come down because of the work of the Clinton Foundation. There are over 10 million people around the globe today receiving life-saving HIV and AIDS drug treatments because of the Clinton Foundation.

Pharma has a lot of lobbies and a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power and there's very little bidding on drugs. America is the largest buyer of drugs in the world and yet we don't bid properly and we're going to start bidding and we're going to save billions of dollars over a period of time.

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.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

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.

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

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

The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.

If the price of the drug people want to use is through the roof, well then they're going to have to commit crimes to get the money to get the drug. You don't see any crimes committed over a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer, do you?