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Jamie Raskin: “Our system is the opposite of a free market. It lets the drug companies increase their prices over and over and over…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2020
Our system is the opposite of a free market. It lets the drug companies increase their prices over and over and over again.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin critiques the U.S. drug pricing system as non-competitive.

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