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I have got to add one thing. I asked the question to every one of these professionals. Can you break down the cost of healthcare for me? Peel the onion. That way I can figure out where the money is going. Not a single one of them can do…
You give the business community a waiver? They will fix healthcare in this country. Quality will go up, providers will come back because they do not have to deal with the force of this Federal, and the oppression of this Federal Government.
We have to have a private system in this country to compete with the government system.
The only way to bring down costs is competition.
This government is driving up the cost of healthcare because the government is driving healthcare.
If you don't get your fiscal house in order, that is the greatest existential threat to this country.
How much are the American people going to have to sacrifice?
I have long been concerned with the lack of transparency in the healthcare industry, particularly as it relates to healthcare middlemen...
Three companies controlling 80 percent of the market, the vertical integration that exists where the insurance company that owns the PBM that owns the pharmacy...
Absolutely. And I can tell you, again, from experience as a pharmacist, that they don't it--that it decreases adherence, because they don't come back.
What we are here today is to address costs by increasing transparency and competition rather than price setting...
We all want the same things. Republicans and Democrats want the same thing. We want affordability, accessibility. We want quality in healthcare.
If I could, there was a study done--and it is a little aged now, it was done a little bit over a year ago--by the Berkeley Research Group that showed--and listen, and if you remember one thing, then remember this: It showed that only 37…
The attorney general has just recently undertaken a lawsuit against the PBMs, referring to them as gangsters. And that is exactly what they are.
I believe that is the responsibility of the FTC, and I think the FTC has failed, has failed Americans in not undertaking that responsibility.
One of the most egregious practices that I ever witnessed in anything was the gag clause that I was able to get passed in legislation to do away with...