Marcia Angell Quotes:
For all of life’s discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there’s another drug, and so on. So we’re all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
Marcia Angell
The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.
Marcia Angell
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
Marcia Angell
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The pharmaceutical industry isn’t the only place where there’s waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.
Marcia Angell
Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than they do on marketing and administration, and afterwards they actually keep more in profits.
Marcia Angell
Unlike the federal government, most states don’t have the option of running a deficit.
Marcia Angell
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
Marcia Angell
Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it’s almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the hospital for a week or two just to take a rest.
Marcia Angell
Health care is a need; it’s not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you’re very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you’re not sick, you shouldn’t have a lot of it.
Marcia Angell
I think doctors are really suffering now. They’re suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients.
Marcia Angell