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Mehmet Oz: “Think about the 600 billion billion of savings as the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 22:06

Now it is going to be difficult for pharmaceutical companies to pull back, but we still believe it makes sense for Congress to codify what we've been able to achieve because it's been so helpful. Think about the 600 billion billion of savings as the average American over the next 10 years. It's just a massive number that they voluntarily sort of gave back because the President went after them and said you got to deal with this problem. (22:06–22:11)

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Asserts that the most favored nation drug pricing policy will save Americans $600 billion over the next 10 years.

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