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Marsha Blackburn

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Marsha Blackburn is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Tennessee since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she previously represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 7, 2003, to January 3, 2019. Blackburn has been an advocate for conservative policies, focusing on issues such as healthcare, tax reform, and technology regulation. She has been vocal on various national issues, often emphasizing her commitment to protecting individual liberties and promoting economic growth.

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Mar 30, 2023

We think that any willing provider has helped in so many instances.

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Mar 30, 2023

Any time you have another step in that vertical integration, what you end up seeing is higher prices for consumers.

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Mar 30, 2023

What we are seeing is because PBMs have a role, what is happening is, we have lessened the 340B programs.

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Mar 30, 2023

I would do away with the PBMs. I think they are unnecessary, and when patients are being steered...

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Mar 29, 2023

I don't know many passengers who will be happy if their flights are canceled or grounded when they hear the FAA failed to address this situation that they have known about in advance.

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Mar 29, 2023

I don't know many passengers who will be happy if their flights are canceled or grounded when they hear the FAA failed to address this situation that they have known about in advance.

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Mar 29, 2023

We think that any willing provider has helped in so many instances.

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Mar 29, 2023

What you end up seeing is higher prices for consumers, and then you have less access, and it convolutes the market.

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Mar 29, 2023

These are the types of techniques that are reducing the number of community pharmacies we have and limiting patient choice and access to medicine.

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Mar 29, 2023

I would do away with the PBMs. I think they are unnecessary, and when patients are being steered, when patients are not able to reap the benefit of that reduced price and they continue to pay higher prices, it is something that is very…

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Mar 28, 2023

I don't know many passengers who will be happy if their flights are canceled or grounded when they hear the FAA failed to address this situation that they have known about in advance.

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Mar 22, 2023

So, with nearly 400,000 children in the foster care system, would you not agree that placing those kids in loving homes is a greater priority than advancing an agenda?

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Mar 22, 2023

It is so unacceptable when they cannot get to professionals within that system.

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Mar 22, 2023

How do you apply this and how do you get a waiver on the cap for physicians and dentists and professionals?

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Mar 22, 2023

I want to ask you about how we continue to have providers who have as many as five documented cases of delivering substandard care.

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Mar 22, 2023

So, with nearly 400,000 children in the foster care system, would you not agree that placing those kids in loving homes is a greater priority than advancing an agenda?

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Mar 22, 2023

I want to know what you are doing to find the children and what you are doing to make certain that these children are not being trafficked?

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Mar 21, 2023

It is a tremendous frustration when we have veterans that are waiting 100 days in Tennessee for a primary care appointment.

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Mar 21, 2023

So, with nearly 400,000 children in the foster care system, would you not agree that placing those kids in loving homes is a greater priority than advancing an agenda?

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Mar 21, 2023

Now the agency--The Times reported that under the Biden presidency, the agency cannot find 85,000 children, and that the agency lost contact with a third of the migrant children who are coming into the country.

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Mar 15, 2023

There seems to be a penchant, though, from my colleagues across the aisle, to restrict self-defense options.

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Mar 15, 2023

Violent crime is raging across this country.

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Mar 15, 2023

It is outrageous, absolutely outrageous, instead of prosecuting violent criminals who are committing these crimes, that many on the left are focused on criminalizing gun ownership for law-abiding citizens.

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Mar 15, 2023

What I can't square is why we have prosecutors and judges who are letting criminals back out on the streets.

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