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On the recordDecember 2, 2014
What we are looking at is very clearly a very, very excessive profit and a lot of that profit is going to be paid for by the taxpayers of this country.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of Gilead's excessive profits from Hepatitis C drug sales.

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