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On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
What you will find is they are all different prices. The same drug, the VA pays X dollars for it, Medicaid pays Y dollars for it.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Highlighting discrepancies in drug prices paid by different government agencies.

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