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Debbie Stabenow: “Is it appropriate to give pharmaceutical companies a $25-billion tax cut in the health-care reform bill when there is…”

On the recordJune 7, 2017
Is it appropriate to give pharmaceutical companies a $25-billion tax cut in the health-care reform bill when there is nothing to bring down the cost of prescription drugs in that bill?
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Debbie Stabenow
Democratic · Michigan

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Stabenow questions the appropriateness of tax cuts for pharma without lowering drug costs.

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