03/02/2011
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"I was proud to vote for that legislation, and I think that it is possibly--no, I am going to go out on a limb here and say it is the only entitlement program in history where the actual experience has..."
"But what those surveys show is that about 40 percent of the beneficiaries think that there are too many--"
"With respect to the vital research and development on new drugs that the pharmaceutical industry does, isn't the American consumer really subsidizing that for the rest of the world?"
"And I think the fact that we have market-based pricing rather than government price controls is a significant part of the reason that that is the case."