… that run into the hundreds of thousands, even to a million for some kind of drugs, but just the, the kind of the ordinary drugs that most Americans might need. The prices are in the thousands and it's just not right. This ought to be a major area of activity for the next Congress is to improve and strengthen the modest changes that we made in the last Democratic Congress to negotiate drug prices. And what was it like? I think only 50 drugs per year. We were going to do modest and it' it's not only the number but the restrictions that were … (21:02–21:19)
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Asserts that drug prices are excessively high and Congress should focus on negotiating drug prices.
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