"I'd love to work with the Chairman in terms of working on that type of proposal, because it solves an awful lot of the problems that you're talking about here."
"Competition solves an awful lot of problems, and we just do not have the competition, and certainly not in the PBM markets."
"If you let in the competitive market system with consumers participating in it, you will get price transparency just as a natural part of it."
"I think PBMs--this is a really interesting hearing, okay? But if you eliminate all the profitability and all the incentives for creating new drugs, you have not really made a dent in our health-care s..."
"Do we not also need more consumer involvement?"
"The biggest problem with PBMs is we have Medicare and their formularies, and it makes it so unbelievably complex."
"We just spent $391 billion that we don't have, mortgaging our kids' future."
"We've already spent $5 trillion and haven't even moved the mark because the rest of the world is going to continue to do fossil fuels."
"Then the economy will take care of it. If it's cheaper, we'll move investments towards those cheaper energy sources."
"The costs that I've listened to in these five hearings pale, I mean pale in comparison to what we've already I would say wasted, $5 trillion trying to hold back the tides."
"$5 trillion. We keep hearing that the world's going to end in 12 years if we don't do something now."