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On the recordJuly 25, 2019
The amount that pharmaceuticals spent on that same time to buy their own stock for the sole purpose of driving up the price was $516 billion.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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Ocasio-Cortez contrasts R&D spending with stock buybacks by pharmaceuticals.

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