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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We were paying $1,300 for a jug manufactured in New Jersey…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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President Trump Makes an Announcement on Lowering Drug Prices

Published | Video Starts at 25:35

Expressed their outrage, their indignation, that we are paying 1/10, in some cases, the price of drugs that they're selling in Europe. We developed them here. We manufactured some of New Jersey. We were paying $1,300 for a jug manufactured in New Jersey. The same drug manufactured in the same plant was being sold for $88 in London. And everybody recognized how unfair this was. We were paying for all the innovation in this country, and yet the rest of the world was free riding on it. (25:35–25:46)

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