Taxpayers pay for drug R&D, not drug companies
We’ve got to make it clear to the drug companies that they do deserve to be part of the solution, because we all benefit from the life-saving remedies they come up with, but we pay for it many times over. It is American taxpayers who pay for the research & a lot of the clinical studies.
That’s why, while we’re looking at getting to universal health care, we also have to give Medicare the right to negotiate with drug companies to get the price down, to begin to rein in those costs across the board.
Source: 2008 Democratic debate in Los Angeles before Super Tuesday , Jan 30, 2008
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Need a health care system that manages chronic diseases
We need a universal health care system where we manage chronic diseases, where we get prices down because we can bargain with the drug companies, where we say to the health insurance companies that they must cover everyone, they have to do it at an affordable rate. For people who might have some financial challenges, I am proposing health care tax credits that will make health care for everyone affordable. That that is the right way to go, because if we don’t have everybody in the system, we know what will happen. The health care companies will continue to cherry pick. The hidden tax that comes when someone does finally show up at the emergency room will be passed onto everyone else. So I am adamantly in favor of universal health care. We will have a system to make it affordable, but it will be required, as part of shared responsibility, under a new way of making sure that we don’t leave anybody out and provide quality, affordable health care for everyone.
Source: 2008 Congressional Black Caucus Democratic debate , Jan 21, 2008