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Jim McDermott: If you could negotiate a 40 percent reduction, it would be 40 billion, right?

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
If you could negotiate a 40 percent reduction, it would be 40 billion, right?
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott questions the potential savings from negotiating drug prices.

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