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On the recordApril 25, 2023
Again, this is a drug that is been off patent for over 100 years. I mean any sort of argument that it needed to be priced two or three times higher than, you know, what people pay in Europe, or other parts of the world, you know, because we got to support R&D I mean is, you know, absurd when you talk about a drug like that.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney criticizes high insulin prices despite it being off patent for a century.

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