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Elijah Cummings: “There must be some playbook that you all use. And they say: 'Oh, we've got an assistance program. We're going to help…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
There must be some playbook that you all use. And they say: 'Oh, we've got an assistance program. We're going to help some people.' And the next thing you know they then use that to justify not bringing the prices down.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings accuses pharmaceutical companies of using assistance programs to avoid lowering prices.

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