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Bernie Sanders: “A new cancer drug coming onto the market, you know, what's…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Jon Stewart & Bernie Sanders on Rebuilding Trust & Efficacy in the Government The Weekly Show

Published | Video Starts at 14:24

And this gets back to, I think, getting back to the campaign, not good enough to say, look what we did. We got insulin. But by the way, A new cancer drug coming onto the market, you know, what's going to cost a year, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Are we really talking about taking on the pharmaceutical industry so that they don't continue to rip off the American label? No, that's not on the table, can't be talked about. (14:24–14:31)

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