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Susan Collins: “We looked at Turing, we looked at Valeant, and what we found was a pattern of certain, what I call, hedge fund pharma…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2017
We looked at Turing, we looked at Valeant, and what we found was a pattern of certain, what I call, hedge fund pharma companies buying the rights to a drug and then, overnight, increasing the cost by as much as literally 5,000 percent in the case of Daraprim.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Senator Collins highlights drastic price hikes by pharmaceutical companies after acquiring drug rights.

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