While it's politically easy to demonize pharmaceutical companies, Democrats need to remember that this industry bailed us out of the pandemic.

We got a bargain here. An expensive bargain? No, a cheap bargain relative to that which it costs us every day.

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Under this same proposal, we would see at least 15 percent fewer drugs developed and brought to market in the next 17 years.

That is not true. And I would like to enter into the record six peer reviewed papers from the Journal of Vaccine, the Annals of Medicine that say the complete opposite of what you say.

price controls dull incentives for market entry and hamper drugmakers' ability to adopt conventional and effective market responses

There is no moral price. There is no right price.

Do price controls work and do price controls lead to shortages? Yes. Obviously they do.

I don't like the idea that the people making the decisions in Government are also receiving money and are now conflicted in their interest.

If you set the price too high, the bread rots on the shelves. If you set the price too low, there is no bread.

If 90 percent of the myocarditis comes after the second dose, why don't we have a rational discussion about one?

Do you think it is scientifically sound to mandate three vaccines for adolescent boys?