Prescription drugs are an integral part of medicine today, they ought to be an integral part of Medicare, period,

The president began to make his case to us today,

The D.C. city council's price control bill is bad medicine for every District resident who relies on prescription drugs. If local governments unilaterally cap medicine prices based on artificially low foreign prices, companies may be forced to make difficult decisions about the scope and type of research and development investments, keeping new medicines in the laboratory longer and out of the neighborhood pharmacy.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

We'll see (how it is) when the drugs wear off (today),

The pipeline is terrific, ... They've probably got the strongest, best, broadest band of drugs for sale today and in the future. And remember, if you think back to the early 1990s when health-care reform was a big deal, nobody wanted to buy these drug stocks. And if you had bought them, you made a lot of money and we think the same thing is going on with some of the Medicare reform today.