How can our system allow a company to take a drug treatment that was developed with taxpayer funds and abuse this monopoly to charge such astronomical prices?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “How can our system allow a company to take a drug treatment that was developed with taxpayer funds and abuse this…”
On the recordMay 15, 2019
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Questioning the pricing practices of Gilead for a drug developed with taxpayer funding.
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