"The Affordable Care Act is the single most important step forward on this issue in the last 50 years."
"They want to go back to a world where health plans are free to offer policies that do not cover prescription drugs or hospitalization."
"What type of access does he have? If a mother has a policy that does not cover hospitalizations, what type of access does she have?"
"What I do take seriously is the need for good provider networks and robust benefit packages in the health insurance marketplaces."
"These core values represent a commitment that stretches all the way back to the founding of our country."
"The foundation laid by Hatch-Waxman Act 30 years ago will continue to be the mechanism by which the management incentives development of lifesaving drugs but we do have an obligation to periodically r..."
"The foundation laid by the Hatch-Waxman Act thirty years ago will continue to be the mechanism by which the government incentivizes development of lifesaving drugs"
"This hearing today has very real implications for patients everywhere. How do we ensure that drug and device companies have the right incentives to discover important new treatments for disease?"
"We cannot legislate scientific advances. In some areas, the lack of new treatments is attributable to a lack of scientific knowledge, not the lack of incentives."
"Our taxpayers want basic research to be funded through the National Institutes of Health, and I would assume everybody that cares about this problem is outraged when we see cuts at the NIH budget."
"The good news is that innovation in this country is flourishing. More important new drugs are launched here than any place else in the world."
"Thirty years ago, Representative Waxman coauthored the Hatch-Waxman Act, which updated our innovation ecosystem and made medications affordable for millions of Americans."