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Peter Welch: should they be charging $1,000 a day to a patient or to the taxpayers that have no recourse whatsoever but have a…

On the recordMay 16, 2016
should they be charging $1,000 a day to a patient or to the taxpayers that have no recourse whatsoever but have a desperate need for the medication?
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch questions the ethics of exorbitant drug prices.

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