"Why is it, in a free market economy, in the United States of America, you can't negotiate on behalf of 45 million Medicare beneficiaries for better drug prices?"
"I'm very concerned about this decline in confidence we see in the public when it comes to the COVID vaccine."
"Trust of the vaccine will be as important, if not more so, than the safety and efficacy."
"That's not a good situation to be in. That's very alarming as we're trying to tackle this pandemic."
"if you're fighting with the public health experts, you're politicizing this, and if you're allying yourself with them, then you're depoliticizing it."
"I wanted to just take a moment to address an argument that we heard articulated today by these companies, which is that the pharmacy benefit managers are the ones responsible for these rising drug pri..."
"But nevertheless, I don't think it is fair to try to push the blame off particularly onto the PBMs. It is the pharmaceutical companies."
"Let's call a spade a spade when it comes to the Republican attacks on the ACA."
"This has been an obsession with the Republicans for more than ten years."
"The attack that is coming with the Supreme Court case in November... is just the latest play out of that playbook."
"We have seen the Trump administration... engage in leadership malpractice when it comes to responding to the pandemic."
"Can you imagine if the President of the United States in the midst of this crisis had led with all of the efforts that you just described at the national level?"