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Mike Lee: “So taking your hypothetical one step further then, it's analogous, you would say, to what--not just going to a doctor…”

On the recordJuly 29, 2014
So taking your hypothetical one step further then, it's analogous, you would say, to what--not just going to a doctor and being told, I'm prescribing you Lipitor and you may now purchase that from me, but going to a doctor and being told, I'm prescribing you Lipitor, there is no generic alternative, there are no other alternatives anywhere----
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee compares prescription lenses to medications without generic alternatives.

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