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Elizabeth Warren: “I do not know why it is that the company that is…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 08:48

A better way to set it up. Dr. Smith, let me just say it may be cheaper to do some things by mail. I fully understand that dramatically. But I do not know why it is that the company that is administering how we're going to get prescription drugs out to our people and how they're going to get reimbursed for it, needs to own the mail order pharmacy and be in direct competition with every individual pharmacist out there. and have an incentive to drive all of our prescriptions in a way that will maximize profits for this company. If we're not in alignment on that central question, I just don't know how we go forward here. (08:48–09:07)

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Questions the necessity of the administering company owning the mail order pharmacy and competing with individual pharmacists.

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