Political Quotes

“Prescription drug companies consistently depend on one argument and one argument only, to defend charging U.S. consumers two and three and four times higher prices in the U.S. than they do in other developed countries. The one argument they use to justify grossly inflated drug prices is that those prices are necessary to sustain R&D. Yet, we know that American taxpayers fund almost half of all the R&D that is done in the drug industry development in this country. It is an insult for the industry to ask American taxpayers to willingly pay the highest price in the world when they will not tell us what they spend when they are the most profitable industry in America, when they spend more money lobbying this institution than anybody else. They pay back American taxpayers by charging us more than anybody in the world. I ask support for the Allen amendment.”