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On the recordMay 15, 2019
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?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the pricing practices of Gilead for a drug developed with taxpayer funding.

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