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Mehmet Oz: “This country will no longer allow its citizens to pay three…”

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

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Dr. Mehmet Oz on state of U.S. health care amid government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 07:33

I don't think anybody that I talked to knew this. The space believed that we would be able to achieve what we've already done over the last few weeks to announce that This country will no longer allow its citizens to pay three times more for the exact same drugs made in the same factory, put in the same bottles in this country than those same drugs cost overseas. And we've effected that change with, with the leading U.S. company, Pfizer, the leading European company, AstraZeneca. (07:33–07:46)

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Asserts that the U.S. has implemented a policy to prevent citizens from paying significantly more for drugs than overseas.

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