Political Quotes

“I will very quickly. First of all, again, I want to thank you, Representative Collins and my colleagues--all of you--for participating in this. This has been a great exercise. Among my proudest possessions are the plaques that the baseball teams give you every year whenever you sponsor a team, and I have got a wall that is just filled with them. Patients come in all the time. ``There I am. I played ball. That was the team I was on,'' and they point toward it. It was the Carter's Pharmacy team. I want to ask you: How many PBMs have you seen sponsoring Little League Baseball teams? I mean, seriously. Folks, we are talking about something that is essential to our communities, and this is a dire situation. I am telling you. If this is not fixed soon, you are going to see a whole profession of community pharmacies going by the wayside. This is a matter of survival here. Again, we are not asking for a government handout. All we are asking for is to be able to compete. It is to be able to compete in a fair market, in a free market, on a level playing field. Ultimately, the loser here is going to be the patient. If we allow this to happen and community pharmacies go away, the ones who are going to suffer are going to be the patients. Thank you again for this. I can't tell you how proud I am of my profession, a profession that I chose years ago when I was in high school and when I was a delivery driver.…”