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Scott Peters: “What we have here is what economists call a 'market failure' at best.”

On the recordApril 9, 2019
What we have here is what economists call a 'market failure' at best.
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Scott Peters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Peters describes the current drug pricing system as a market failure.

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