11/15/2011
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"As co-chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, which I founded in 1998, Senator Jeanne Shaheen and I introduced legislation in the last Congress to create a new pricing model for insulin."
"Even though there are several biosimilars for the best-selling drug in the world, Humira, and they've been on the market in the European Union since 2018, American patients must wait another two years..."
"I led a bipartisan investigation with then-Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri on sudden price spikes of off-patent drugs."
"Later this spring, along with my colleague Senator Tim Kaine, I will reintroduce the Biologic Patent Transparency Act to prevent drug manufacturers from gaming the patent system."