Scott Gottlieb

We believe we do. We are going to be promulgating guidance that is going to require significantly heightened age verification requirements for flavored e-cigarette products sold in convenience stores and products sold through online…

I am not going to countenance on my watch addicting a whole generation of young people to nicotine through e-cigarettes.

We cannot just addict a whole generation of young people on nicotine with e-cigarettes and consider that a public health advance.

I see it as a strengthening, because we are going from a hard threshold of 30 percent to a risk-based threshold of 50 percent.

Throughout my career I've worked to advance policies to enable terminally ill patients to obtain earlier access to promising new drugs.

the most important incentive to developing useful information remains the ability for companies to market drugs based on what has been proven scientifically.

I think this is a public health emergency on the order of Ebola and Zika.

I am committed to proper implementation of the TCA. As a physician and a cancer survivor, I am not going to countenance a rise in adolescent smoking rates in this country under my watch.

I found that most plans excluded 6 or 7 of the 12 top drugs that you use to treat the disease.

I think it is part of a broader political philosophy that I think, to date, hasn't been successful.

I think it is just awful that we would give false hopes and false promise to people that really want to access health care.

coverage doesn't necessarily equal access and coverage doesn't change whether or not a person is a good consumer of health care services.