Susan Collins

If you are an inauthentic account, if you are pretending to be someone you're not, you come down.

I would close my questioning by encouraging both of you to work more closely with academia, with our government.

I think this is critically important.

It truly is miraculous work that they are doing and it is so exciting to me.

I continue to claim you as my cousin and I hope you will not disabuse others.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk called the roll.

Aren't we risking doing tremendous damage to our own domestic industries by using the national security justification against some of our closest allies?

China is admittedly a very bad actor when it comes to trade, but we have to be sure that the actions we take don't end up hurting our own domestic producers.

Before the two Senators from Missouri leave the floor, let me express my personal condolences to them, which I know are shared by each and every Member of this body. The tragedy in Missouri is absolutely heartbreaking for the families, for…

It seems to me there are perverse conflicts of interest in the way this whole system works, in addition to a lack of transparency.

It was very unfortunate that the Ranking Member... chose to block those bills.

Yet, if that person with diabetes loses a limb, or goes blind, or has a stroke, we will pay for all of those costs.

I have had specialists in Maine tell me that when patients realize that, they cancel the screening. It just does not make sense to me.

Actually, without quality information, there is reason to believe it is going to make things worse because people are going to use price as a measure or a marker of quality.

The only way price transparency works is, as you said, if you have quality information, and that is how we do tradeoffs.

Researchers have also found that patients equate high prices with high quality.

In the State of Maine, for example, the cost of a knee replacement can vary from less than $25,000 to more than $50,000.

I really appreciate your being forthright about that, because I believe that if states understood that, they'd be more receptive to the help that I know Secretary Johnson offered.

The BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act would create an Alzheimer's public health infrastructure across the country.

I'm also very concerned about the problems of gaming the patent system through strategies such as patent thickets and evergreening.

Most patients are not going to assume that if they don't use their insurance, they'll get a better price.

I was very pleased this morning to hear you endorse the prohibition on gag clauses on pharmacists...

This system is opaque, and the incentives are frequently perverse in drug pricing.

We are also grateful to Chairman Collins, who supports the elimination of the IMD exclusion.

It is clear there is a very serious problem with outlier prescribers.