Bill Cassidy actually said...

"There are people in this room who would not be alive today were it not for capitalism interfacing with the pharmaceutical and medical device industry that allows you to be alive today."

"For decades, this Committee has passed legislation knowing that we would have to ask companies to step up at perhaps a pandemic time."

"He lamented that Fleming, when he discovered penicillin, didn't seek a patent, saying that if he had, we would have had penicillin 10 years earlier than we finally got it."

"Yes, I would rather they set price on a drug that exists than have people like my mother-in-law and others who have died of cancer because there is no treatment that exists for them."