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Janice Schakowsky: “They charge what the market will bear, and that means that the prices have kept going up out of control.”

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
They charge what the market will bear, and that means that the prices have kept going up out of control.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Schakowsky points out that drug prices are rising uncontrollably.

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