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Fred Upton: “This means that new treatments and cures cost more and they are getting to patients more slowly. That system is simply…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2014
This means that new treatments and cures cost more and they are getting to patients more slowly. That system is simply unsustainable.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

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Upton highlights the inefficiencies in the drug approval process affecting patient access to treatments.

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