Insurance companies, not pharmaceutical companies, are the primary drivers of profit and control in the American healthcare system.

“the big five insurance companies made four times the revenue of the biggest five pharmaceutical companies last year 4X the revenue they control every surg every drug every treatment when where and how you can access health care and treatments and preventive care”

Mark Cuban aims to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry by implementing a cost-plus model that focuses on price transparency and cutting out intermediaries like pharmacy benefit managers.

“my mission is to [ __ ] up the healthcare industry so that's that's my focus”

Manufacturers must be held strictly accountable for batch testing and ensuring the quality of raw materials to prevent contaminated products from reaching consumers.

“So what did Cidesco give you an ownership Di that it is your duty to teach every batch You will test it. Every batch is certified will you do it That he is not okay. It is your duty.”

Large pharmaceutical companies prioritize profit over patient health, which leads to them suppressing non-patentable compounds like certain peptides.

“I don't think it's accurate to characterize pharmaceutical companies or really any other entity as being you know evil or or bad. The truth is maybe a little bit more ominous. The truth is is that they are these large machines that are designed to prioritize profit over everything.”

Jon Stewart argues that pharmaceutical companies have historically exploited American consumers while receiving federal subsidies.

“Pharma has exploited the American consumer while we have in turn subsidized their whole industry with tax incentives and direct funds.”

The current rate of prescribing psychiatric drugs to children constitutes a dangerous, poorly understood societal experiment.

“this country and a society needs to really look deeply at this issue and say should children because we didn't go on these drugs when we were kids they didn't exist and they haven't existed for all of humanity and we need to think what kind of experiment are we running on 10 20 30 percent kids in so”

Shane Smith suggests that the pharmaceutical industry is driven by corporate interests and profit rather than patient health.

“the entire system is set up now unfortunately to monetize chronic disease not to stop chronic disease or even prevent chronic disease”

Pharmaceutical companies prioritize profit over patient well-being, often engaging in unethical practices to market drugs that lack clinical efficacy.

“The farma companies they're there for one thing to make profit it's they have a profit overp patient ethos and that is solid gold”