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On the recordJuly 15, 2002
that provision certainly was influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. Basically, they are putting into law a prohibition on the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is supposed to be representing the American people. They are really going to try to prohibit him by law from doing anything that is going to lower the prices of these prescription drugs.
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Marilyn Strickland
Democratic · Washington

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Discussing the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health policy.

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