The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.
You think the military-industrial complex is powerful in Washington? The Health Care complex spends 4 times as much on lobbying.
The Republicans and Democrats profit from war and sickness.
When we speak of reducing health care costs, remember that for many powerful interests, that translates into “taking away my business.”
If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.
The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.
