"A publicly traded company to promise to base their prices on bullying from a politician would actually be in breach of their fiduciary duty."
"We are all unhappy, but we have to be rational about what we are doing."
"We want lower prices, but if you want to mandate lower co-prices for things, you may well get the opposite."
"No one is forcing anybody to hire them."
"We are going to ban the cheaper form of buying your drug insurance. Why would we ban the cheaper form?"
"In a free society, rational thinking, labor unions, and businesses, and health organizations are choosing a PBM."
"But the thing is, we haven't thought this through. We are angry. Everybody is angry. I am angry."
"I think there is a possibility, and I think that might be one complaint."
"The list price is meaningless."
"Did USAID fund coronavirus research in Wuhan, China?"
"Should we be funding the Academy of Military Medical Research in China? They are now off limits, but did we fund them and who was making the decision?"
"Twenty million people died around the world. You are supposed to be an agency that cares about the death of people around the world."