And I've seen it up close. As a member of the Senate, you know, I was. I was proud of the fact that because I got elected and we flipped the Senate, We passed a bill that for the first time gave Medicare the ability to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. First thing you ought to ask yourself is why would you have to pass a law to do that in the first place, to get the person who's buying the product in a capitalistic society, the ability to negotiate One word answer to that. (14:42–14:52)
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