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Gilbert Gutknecht: “This is not a matter of right versus left. It is a matter of right versus wrong, and it is simply wrong to require that…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2003
This is not a matter of right versus left. It is a matter of right versus wrong, and it is simply wrong to require that Americans pay the world's highest prices for prescription drugs, even though we are the world's best customers. In virtually every other area that you can imagine, the best customers get the best prices, but that is not true in prescription drugs, and I began to research this story about 5 years ago, and the more I learned, the more upsetting and compelling this story really is. The story is that Americans are really held captive, and anytime you have a captive market, it is absolutely predictable that you are going to see the world's highest prices.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Discussing the high prices of prescription drugs in the U.S. compared to other countries.

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