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On the recordSeptember 24, 2019
We watch parents, including some back in my home State, who marched into headquarters--in front of headquarters of a pharmaceutical company--carrying the ashes of their children because the treatment that could have saved their lives was too expensive.
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Joseph P. Kennedy III
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Kennedy shares a poignant example of families affected by unaffordable treatments.

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