06/22/2021
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"Leaving life or death medical decisions in the hands of drug manufacturers and multibillion dollar PBMs instead of patients and their healthcare providers is literally killing people."
"I believe that the profit-seeking motive in the pharmaceutical industry is out of control, and I think that it is what is hurting people."
"I personally believe that if you have a public entity that does not have a profit motive, like Medicare, negotiate these prices with the manufacturers."
"I think at the core of what we are talking about is an extreme out-of-control profit motive that has virtually no guardrails."