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Elizabeth Warren: “Taxpayers watch when we've granted exclusivity to these companies, and then they watch as the prices go up, and there's…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2017
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 wrong.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren criticizes drug companies for raising prices after gaining exclusivity.

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