"Given what we have heard here today about the harm mercury can cause, it still boggles my mind why anyone would go out of their way to undermine these standards."
"So I am working on a bill with Dr. Wenstrup, a Republican physician in Congress, to create a set of exemptions based on the doctor and patient experiences so that we can make sure we get the right med..."
"We should never have a conversation about our healthcare system starting off with what the net profit of a corporation is."
"Step therapy is a means to save insurance companies money by creating a step-wise fashion of forcing patients to use cheaper drugs first."
"What is best for the patient? And what is best for the patient is the patient's experience, not only in their health."
"What safeguards do you have in place to protect the patient from having to repeat a harmful or ineffective treatment because of step therapy requirements?"
"I want to make sure that this bill is clear that we are--what we are intending, which is to ban asbestos in products, whether it be on purpose or by accident, as an impurity, a contaminant, ingredient..."
"The rising cost of drugs is such a big problem that it has reached kitchen table, family conversations across America."
"Somebody is getting richer on the backs of our patients."
"As a doctor, I put my patients' needs above all else and our solutions should do the same and reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients."
"Thank you, Chairwoman Kaptur and Ranking Member Simpson. Thank you for inviting me here, today, to testify about an issue that is of incredible importance to my district in Southern California."