Scott Gottlieb Quotes

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In fast moving fields like cancer, where doctors tailor

In fast moving fields like cancer, where doctors tailor treatments based on evidence that’s constantly evolving, two years can be an eternity of waiting to learn about important science. For some patients, that interval can be fatal.
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One option is to run Medicaid like a health programrather than an exercise in political morals – and let states tailor benefits to the individual needs of patients, even if that means abandoning the unworkable myth of ‘comprehensivecoverage.
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The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to displace the national for-profit insurers.
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Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.
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In ‘Pox: An American History,’ Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.
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When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and case law that altered the balance between government authority and medical practice, in favor of federal control.
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ObamaCare has accelerated many of the detrimental trends doctors see in their profession, and introduced new ones.
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When the price of a drug rises, it becomes profitable and the target of new competition.
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The overly engineered, overly regulated market that Obamacare created resulted in restrictive health care plans that provide little choice, and coverage that is far too costly for what the plans offer.
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Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens‘ right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery.
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The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and cures.
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Zika is an addressable threat. While it falls outside of the regular routine of public health preparedness, we shouldn’t be scrambling for new resources each time a threat like Zika starts to emerge.
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Obamacare’s costly regulations mean that the mix of people who sign up are tending to be older and sicker. Many young and otherwise healthy individuals continue to be priced out of the exchanges, even after the benefit of federal subsidies are baked into their costs.
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Cell-based and regenerative medicine can restore human functions lost to disease, including returning some sight to the blind.
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Patients would be better off if states were able to tailor the benefits that Medicaid coverstargeting resources to sicker people and giving healthy adults cheaper, basic coverage.
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One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.
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Once an effective drug is approved to treat a deadly condition, introducing a second drug to treat the same disease can be hard. It’s tough to recruit patients with a debilitating disease for a clinical trial when a proven medicine is already available.
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In short order, Obamacare is evolving into a Medicaid marketplace. Not only in terms of the design and quality of the narrow-network plans that are being offered, but in the actual carriers that sell those policies.
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Limiting Covid’s impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.
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Before Obamacare, insurance networks typically covered an entire state. Under Obamacare, insurers are able to bid to offer coverage mostly on a county-by-county basis. It means that health plans only need to fashion doctor networks as wide as the county that they’re bidding to offer coverage in.
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Rather than redistribute physician income as a way to subsidize an expansion of government control, Mr. Obama should fix the payment system to align incentives with improved care.
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Covid is likely to persist once its pandemic phase has passed and circulate each winter alongside the flu. Even after more of us contract coronavirus infection and develop immunity to it or even after an effective vaccine arrives, some people will still get very sick.
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Advocacy groups like Families U.S.A. imagine that once Medicaid becomes a middle-class entitlement, political pressure from middle-class workers will force politicians to address these problems by funneling more taxpayer dollars into this flawed program. President Barack Obama’s health plan follows this logic.
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Confronting a dangerous pandemic requires containing spread wherever it is reasonably possible. Sensible measures such as universal masking, testing and widespread and rapid contact tracing can help. The best way to protect the vulnerable is to try to protect everyone.
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Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have a tough job.
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A respiratory pathogen may pose an asymmetric risk to America, given our culture, economy and federalist system.
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We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn’t become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires a shared commitment between innovators and the insurance plans that are harder pressed to offer these advances to the poor.
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Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.
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Covid-19 has altered world history.
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The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice is being transformed by these inventions.
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The first nation to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 could have an economic advantage as well as a tremendous public-health achievement. Doses will be limited initially as suppliers ramp up, and a country will focus on inoculating most of its own population first.
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The fact is that Medicaid doesn’t even serve well the medical needs of people who should be its principal focus – Americans who are poor in large part because their chronic health problems leave them unable to earn a stable income.
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The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.
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In countries such as France and Germany, layers of bureaucracy like health boards have been specifically engineered to delay the adoption of new medical products and services, thus lowering spending.
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The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of benefits as executive management teams.
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Americans broadly consent to funding clinical research because they believe in the promise of medical research. But people support scientific work only if they trust that it serves societal interests, respects patient dignity and operates with guardrails.
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When gene therapy was believed to harbor latent risks, research was largely put on hold until the risks were better understood. Sometimes, the theoretical risks have led to a principle of absolutist precaution that impedes progress.
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Under Obamacare, doctors have been strained by costly new regulations, intricate payment ‘reforms‘ that tie their Medicare reimbursement to complex federal reporting requirements, and mandates that they install and make ‘meaningfuluse of electronic health records.
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Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work.
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Creative destruction is an increasingly prominent feature of modern medical practice.
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Over the years, EpiPen’s manufacturer, Mylan, made meaningful modifications to its auto-injector pen. The company maintains some important intellectual property around these revisions. Mylan rightly argues that these features differentiate its device.
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A seductive technology that works like a dream and improves lives will set off a consumer clamor, whether the new tool is an iPhone 4S or an implantable blood-sugar meter.
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The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don’t have a family doctor.
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The spread of HIV through contaminated blood was a tragic illustration of the risk that blood products could harbor undetectable and latent infection that’s only revealed once it’s widely distributed.
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If drug development becomes the domain of government researchers, it’s a sure bet that political lobbying will eventually trump scientific promise and commercial viability when it comes to investment decisions.
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There’s a big difference between apps that help you manage your medical information and draw clues from your own bodies, and those that seek to actively doctor you.
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Why do physicians prescribe powerful antibiotics? Generally not because our patients ask for them. Most people who come in with a sore throat would be just as happy leaving my office with a prescription for Chloraseptic as clarithromycin.
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From West Nile to swine flu to Ebola to the global outbreak of dengue fever, the capacity to deal with threats like Zika must be designed into our preparedness posture.
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The higher cost of getting a generic drug approved by regulators means that many old medicines don’t face competitors. It’s only after substantial price hikes that these drugs offer enough revenue to offset the rising generic entry costs, and start to entice competition.
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When people age, the main valve carrying blood out of the heart becomes brittle. As this aortic valve narrows, it can cause debilitating heart failure, and even death.
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Health-assessment software such as CareEvolution‘s ‘Safer Covid’ tool can combine multiple health factors to evaluate a person‘s total risk of contracting Covid or suffering a bad outcome.
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America is home to a vast, dynamic life-science industry.
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As Apple advances the medical promise of its watch and smartphones, it has also made clear that its foremost aim is to steer clear of Food and Drug Administration regulation.
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Biologics must be grown in living systems – fermented, for example, in large vats of bacteria cells. This makes them hard to replicate. For decades, biologics weren’t subject to competition from copycat generic medicines, even once patents and exclusivities had lapsed on originals.
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President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also reverse these trends, making the average health insurance plan cheaper. That isn’t happening.
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One of the biggest factors fueling the angst over drug prices in the U.S. is that some older medicines that should be sold cheaply as generics are still priced very high, often owing to a dwindling number of generic competitors and the rising cost of producing these drugs.
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Science offers the chance to cure debilitating and once-intractable disorders like hemophilia and sickle cell disease. But we need to make sure the ability to access these therapies, or the risk that someone can be locked out of them, doesn’t widen gaps between the rich and poor.
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Policies I advanced as FDA commissioner aimed to get smokers off cigarettes and onto less-harmful forms of nicotine delivery.
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Covid spreads too easily to think it can be confined to the young.
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Reformers in Washington need to do a better job of explaining how market-based alternatives to ObamaCare are a better outcome for the structure and delivery of health care.
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Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well.
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Many inherited disorders can perpetuate poverty by leading to disabilities that disrupt people’s ability to work. In turn, someone’s capacity to secure an effective new cure for these diseases can mean the difference between a life led productively, or one plagued by infirmity.
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We’ve been scared from using antibiotics and antivirals out of some kind of weird sense of communal responsibility to keep bugs naive to our powerful weapons.
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The nature of food processing had changed substantially in America. Much of it owed to corresponding changes in food packaging and the logistics for faster shipping. The scope of outbreak from foodborne illness no longer has a clear geographic boundary.
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EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.
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One of the untold elements of the rapid decay underway in the Obamacare exchanges is the massive shift toward the Medicaid managed care companies, and away from the traditional commercial insurers like UnitedHealth Group and Aetna.
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Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren’t so many human victims.
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Covid-19 may be here for a long time.
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Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very little real choice of the health benefits they want.
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