You should answer my question first.

Skyrocketing drug prices obviously affect Clare, but they actually affect all of us.

Let me ask to that end. What are the profit margins of pharmaceutical companies versus, say, other sectors in the economy, say steel?

For drug prices, let us use the 'Clare Test.'

I think the fact that we are not, should show the people of Tennessee, once again, that the Chairman is a rabid right-wing partisan.

No one should have to choose between affording their medications or their home.

I hope that you will read them, everyone here, and internalize them, and make these stories your test of whether what we are doing here is good enough.

We should be able to import from Canada. We should be able to have a safe path and I think we also pay with NIH funding; I do not think that is talked about enough. We should negotiate within Medicare Part D.

There is hope that there are enough colleagues on the other side of the aisle that will not allow something to get passed that will hurt the American people...

At least that was an answer. Thank you. I appreciate that.

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