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Rodney Jamil, MD, of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Pinnacle, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was in the audience at the meeting and addressed Ron Fine, MD, of CMS's patient care models group. Dr Fine was participating in a meeting roundtable discussion on value-based cancer care.
Speaking from the meeting floor, Jamil talked for roughly a minute and concluded by venting about the high cost of cancer drugs.
"It's the American taxpayer who subsidizes your institution and pays your salary, and you turn around and you want to rip [off] the taxpayer who subsidizes your organization, so why can't you get your act together and be a capitalist and negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies!" he fumed.
Rodney Jamil, MD, of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Pinnacle, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was in the audience at the meeting and addressed Ron Fine, MD, of CMS's patient care models group. Dr Fine was participating in a meeting roundtable discussion on value-based cancer care.
Speaking from the meeting floor, Jamil talked for roughly a minute and concluded by venting about the high cost of cancer drugs.
"It's the American taxpayer who subsidizes your institution and pays your salary, and you turn around and you want to rip [off] the taxpayer who subsidizes your organization, so why can't you get your act together and be a capitalist and negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies!" he fumed.