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Kristin Lyerly: “Big Pharma posted a combined $177 billion in profits last…”

Featuring: Kristin Lyerly, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 8

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Manufactured Crisis: How Trump and Republicans Broke Wisconsin's Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 30:43

Republicans are not serious about lowering any health care costs. The last of which they're interested in lowering are prescription drug prices. Yeah, let's acknowledge the report notes that Big Pharma posted a combined $177 billion in profits last year, which was a 65% increase. So while Donald Trump was telling people that he was lowering your prescription drug prices, actually they were going up, and not by a little 65%. It's crazy. It is crazy. (30:43–30:52)

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Asserts that Big Pharma's profits increased by 65% to $177 billion last year.

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