Political Stances on Drug Price Regulation Rights

“Florida Republicans must stand firm against the Bernie Sanders agenda [] Vermont has already passed Sanders scheme, and now Florida Republicans are trying to do the same. The idea sounds simple: Import drugs from Canada, a country where the government sets the price, so people can supposedly get cheaper drugs. But like any socialist policy, the consequences will be devastating because of the health and economic risks it brings with it.This scheme would let in dangerous drugs that will harm people and not save anyone a dime. Law enforcement experts, former FDA officials and many others agree: drug importation poses too much risk.”

“For many women, the Democratic message of grow-the-government socialism works. Unhappy with your HMO? Take taxpayers money to make health care more secure, more affordable. […] Drug prices too high? Attack excessive pharmaceutical profits by imposing price controls.”

“I saw from the front lines the biggest invisible monster that is actually responsible for rising drug prices in this country that almost no one sees that is the FDA. The FDA imposes the kinds of hurdles needed to develop a new medicine that makes it far more costly than it needs to be, billions of dollars, and over 10 years for new medicine. That means that hurdle is that high, that cost gets passed on to the consumer. So, when it comes to the prescription drug […] the FDA is something that the next president can actually reform. The second thing we need is a more generic competition. Here the FDA plays a different role too. Generics are supposed to hit the market when a patent expires. Companies play a lot of games. Pharma is a corrupt industry but they only respond to the incentives that they’re given by a complex bureaucracy in the government. I’m going to reform that. I’m going to simplify it, streamline the process for getting new medicines to Market. That’s great. Maybe pharmaceutical folks will like that. The part they won’t like is also making sure that generics get to Market when they’re supposed to rather than being delayed which is really a corrupted process, and I know how to fix it”.”