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Tom Harkin: Does the Senator from Illinois think the drug companies are losing money on every bottle of pills a veteran buys? I can…

On the recordJune 25, 2003
Does the Senator from Illinois think the drug companies are losing money on every bottle of pills a veteran buys? I can see him shaking his head. Obviously not. Veterans get their bottle of pills cheaper than anyone else. I bet my bottom dollar the drug companies are not losing a penny on any one of them. They are making money. They are just not making as much money as they are, say, if I went in and bought them.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the pricing of prescription drugs for veterans.

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