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Eric Cantor: “Mr. Speaker, just to follow up on that, again, it goes to the fundamental difference between the two parties here…”

On the recordOctober 29, 2003
Mr. Speaker, just to follow up on that, again, it goes to the fundamental difference between the two parties here, whether you think the government ought to be in there for you negotiating prices, or whether you ought to let the private sector and the plans that have an incentive to attract customers and attract seniors into the plan to make their formularies more attractive, if we are talking about prescription drugs, to give the market the incentive to do that for seniors. Let the seniors choose which plan is better for them, because if you have got the government doing it, there will be no choice. There will be a one-size-fits-all, government-run plan.
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Eric Cantor
Virginia

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Discussing the role of government versus the private sector in negotiating prescription drug prices.

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