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Tim Kaine: If we just use standard commercial practices like best price contracts, for example, which are market mechanisms, if we…

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
If we just use standard commercial practices like best price contracts, for example, which are market mechanisms, if we did that, we could dramatically reduce the cost especially of mature drugs that are past the point where dollars are being put in to research them.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine advocates for using best price contracts to lower drug costs.

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