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Chris Murphy: “Prescription drug prices are so high because our politics is…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Published | Video Starts at 14:45

If you just, like, start with let's, let's trim the sales of the way that the pharmaceutical companies price drugs, it's like, you're not telling me the whole story. Like, the real story is that we got into this mess with Prescription drug prices are so high because our politics is corrupt and the prescription drug companies have way too much control over Washington. So don't just tell me your plan for lowering prescription drug costs. Tell me your plan for knocking out the prescription drug industry's power in Washington. Like, I need to know both things. (14:45–14:58)

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Asserts that high prescription drug prices are due to political corruption and influence of drug companies.

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