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On the recordMarch 16, 2016
to have a drug that is the gold standard that is available through discrete, specific channels, and then to say that a 5,000 percent price increase is necessary to invest in the means to reach that captive patient population just seems to defy common sense.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal argues that a price increase contradicts the goal of making a drug accessible.

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