06/12/2025
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"taxpayers watch when we've granted exclusivity to these companies, and then they watch as the prices go up, and there's not a darned thing for taxpayers to do about it. This is just fundamentally wron..."
"How about the Federal Government competing and actually having some competition and saying, 'We're going to negotiate prices.'"
"I looked it up, and the organizations who are testifying here today spent a combined total of $30 million lobbying Congress last year."
"Another market solution is negotiation. If the Federal Government were allowed to negotiate more competitive drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries, then prices would come down."