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Ninety-five percent of all Americans live within five miles of a pharmacy.

I feel like this is one of the most inappropriate and blatant examples of picking--of the Government picking winners and losers that I have ever witnessed.

If I could, there was a study done--and it is a little aged now, it was done a little bit over a year ago--by the Berkeley Research Group that showed--and listen, and if you remember one thing, then remember this: It showed that only 37 percent of the price of a drug goes to the pharmaceutical manufacturer, which begs the question, where does the 63 percent go? It goes to the PBM, it goes to the middlemen. That is where the problem is. That is where we can control drug prices at.

Three companies controlling 80 percent of the market, the vertical integration that exists where the insurance company that owns the PBM that owns the pharmacy...