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On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
I want to thank the gentleman for being a part and providing an insight that is--as I have said, for those of us who see this and call unfair unfair, and we are learning about it every day, you have lived it, and I think providing those insights is valuable. The more we continue down this path, it just--and again, I spoke about it. I am on the Rules Committee as well. I talked about it in the Rules Committee, and it was amazing when I heard the other members. Some were on Energy and Commerce, some were on others, and they finally said, that deserves a hearing. MAC transparency deserves a hearing. Griffith's bill deserves a hearing. Guthrie's bill deserves a hearing. These are things that actually save money, except for the coercive, twist-arm tactics of PBMs who just think that 83 percent of the market is not enough, 83 percent, roughly, of the market is not enough, that they get on people about mail order. They want you to turn--and your insight on how they actually know. That wall, that is the flimsiest wall I have ever seen. Maybe they will start building it better. I don't know. In north Georgia, we built them a little harder than that. But I appreciate that. I want to go into something tonight, and it is something that we have talked about. It just explains how this works, because maybe some aren't as familiar; they haven't studied this and had a great staff. I have actually had a great staff that have put together--you know, Bob's here tonight.…
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Mike Collins
Republican · Georgia

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