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Mehmet Oz: “One in three Americans are turned away from the drugstore…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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President Trump announces launch of Trump Rx: Full

Published | Video Starts at 10:32

… besides negotiating these kinds of deals is bringing wonderful people around you who can actually fulfilled the dream of making drugs accessible so Americans no longer suffer that affordability issue. One in three Americans are turned away from the drugstore. They can't afford the drugs no more. Our most vulnerable are protected. To do that you need brilliant software engineers and Ed Korstine led a wonderful group that you hired folks again would never normally have come to government to work to make this possible. (10:32–10:37)

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Asserts that one in three Americans cannot afford drugs and are turned away from drugstores.

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