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Byron Dorgan: “Drug benefit costs for large employers are expected to jump 22.5 percent for employees and 23.4 percent for retirees…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2000
Drug benefit costs for large employers are expected to jump 22.5 percent for employees and 23.4 percent for retirees over the next year... Congress is about to permit the wholesale importation of drugs from Mexico and Canada. The personal health of American consumers is unquestionably at risk. Counterfeit prescription drugs will inevitably make their way across our borders and into our medicine cabinets. Counterfeit prescription drugs can kill. Counterfeit drugs have killed.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing rising drug costs and the risks of counterfeit drugs amid proposed drug importation legislation.

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