02/08/2009
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"It is legal, but if drug companies have influence over which drugs these charities help patients buy, then under current law, it would be illegal."
"We have to find ways to bring down the cost of prescription drugs and the National Academies recommends that the Federal Government negotiate prices directly with drug companies. I agree."
"Cures also fell short in a really big way, and that's on funding."
"Frankly, it didn't even come close, and that's why today we're reintroducing the National Biomedical Research Act, which provides $50 billion in new funding for the NIH and for the FDA."