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Donald Trump: “We have a thing called the Unaffordable Care Act. It's…”

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FULL: Trump announces plan with drug companies to lower prescription costs

Published | Video Starts at 40:35

Most people thought for the United States to have favored nations where we have the lowest drug price in the world is. And I said to myself, you know, We have a thing called the Unaffordable Care Act. It's unaffordable because the insurance companies make so much money and the insurance companies totally control the Democrats. And I said to myself, standing watching these great leaders, and we have four other leaders coming in, Johnson and Johnson and four other very big companies, actually, very great companies. (40:35–40:45)

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Asserts that the Affordable Care Act is unaffordable due to insurance companies' profits and their control over Democrats.

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