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Byron Dorgan: This has been a long and tortured trail, probably 10 years, in which the pharmaceutical industry has prevented the…

On the recordMarch 1, 2010
This has been a long and tortured trail, probably 10 years, in which the pharmaceutical industry has prevented the American people from accessing FDA-approved identical drugs that are sold for a fraction of the price in most other countries in the world.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan discusses the struggle for Americans to access affordable FDA-approved drugs.

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