"There is such confusion in this field, and I want to get it straight."
"Isn't it the case that there were $50 billion in 2021 that your members got in rebates that were not passed on to the patients?"
"Yes. I mean, you are not disagreeing that sharing a greater portion of the rebate dollars would lower costs at the drug counter."
"If we are interested in benefiting patients and consumers, why should we care about lowest net cost to you?"
"I appreciate the insights of all the witnesses and the ways that different players in the healthcare system... may be placing barriers in the way of people just getting affordable medication."
"The Inflation Reduction Act has already begun to create savings for seniors because we made sure that the market works by giving Medicare the power to negotiate with Big Pharma for lower drug prices."
"We got to put the patients first."
"there is no evidence that has turned up over the last 7 months that Joe Biden is guilty of any criminal wrongdoing"
"I do hope she will clarify that."
"I appreciate your candor in saying that that was not the case in the opioid litigation, or in the talcum powder case."
"We do not believe that the talcum powder cases have merit. We believe that that is actually all driven by third-party litigation funding."
"One of our colleagues, actually, several of our colleagues raised this issue, but one of them asked whether the Chinese government might have used intellectual property law or lawyers to achieve power..."