Joe Biden for years used to say it's illegal for the federal government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies. So could this have been done years ago? It could have been done 40 years ago and it should have been done. Every president has promised to do it. President Clinton promised to do. We are paying compared to Europe, we're paying 2, 3, 4, 15 times what Europeans are paying for the same drug that was made by a factory in New Jersey. (07:41–07:47)
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Asserts that the federal government could have negotiated drug prices 40 years ago and that every president has promised to do so.
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