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Melissa Hughes: “We're capping the costs on [chronic care drugs like insulin…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Published | Video Starts at 03:41

The second piece of cost that I'm going after is prescription drugs and making sure that we have levels set for our chronic care drugs like insulin and other drugs that are taking care of chronic diseases, that We're capping the costs on [chronic care drugs like insulin and other drugs that are taking care of chronic diseases]. those. And then a bunch of states have started importing from Canada to relieve drugs, drug prices, and they're our neighbors, so we're going to start doing that, too. (03:41–03:44)

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