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Richard Blumenthal: “We love to talk about free enterprise and free markets, and yet the price of insulin and many other generics has risen…”

On the recordMay 7, 2018
We love to talk about free enterprise and free markets, and yet the price of insulin and many other generics has risen astronomically without adequate explanation.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal highlights the contradiction between free markets and rising insulin prices.

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