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On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
The price of drugs are making health care the most expensive in the world here in the United States, out of reach to millions of Americans.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley highlights the unaffordability of healthcare due to high drug prices.

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