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Rick Allen: “Seniors pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world, and the adversaries, the people who are trying to keep…”

On the recordOctober 27, 2000
Seniors pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world, and the adversaries, the people who are trying to keep them paying the highest prices in the world, is the pharmaceutical industry. The trouble is they are not citizens, it is the pharmaceutical industry, and they are not for better Medicare because they do not want Medicare to provide a prescription drug benefit.
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Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia

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Discussing the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on prescription drug prices for seniors.

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