Political Quotes

“I know the Democrats yesterday said: We don't care. It is worth it. We don't need all those cures. That is, in effect, what they said. And then they said: Oh, those are just somebody's talking points. No. This is the Congressional Budget Office's independent analysis that said we will lose 38 cures right out of the gate in the next two decades because of H.R. 3, and that for every year thereafter in the 2030s, we will lose 10 percent of what we otherwise would have. Is that the cure for Alzheimer's? rheumatoid arthritis? ALS? Parkinson's? That is what Democrats are saying they don't care about, that it is worth it to let those go in order to force the government price in this market. We don't think that has to be the case. I don't think it is an either/or choice. They are making it that with H.R. 3. I think we can have innovation without the heavy-handed club mugging innovation by taking the revenues of companies when they don't agree with what the government sets as the price. And we know in foreign countries that they want to model America after, upwards of 40 percent of cancer drugs are not available in those countries, and they are available here in the United States.…”