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Ron Johnson: “There are certain products we have to figure out some way to…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Discussion with Senator Ron Johnson on Prescription Drug Pricing and Economic Policies

Published | Video Starts at 05:52

I mean, I don't know that we can ever get to a place of parity with China just because we're the consumer and they're the manufacturer. I'm not sure what success looks like there. Well, again, There are certain products we have to figure out some way to incentivize reshoring them. Critical things like high end semiconductors, you know, pharmaceutical precursors, active pharmaceutical ingredients, rare earth minerals. I mean there's a number of things that we need to figure out. How do we incentivize people to do it here in America? (05:52–06:06)

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Asserts the need to incentivize reshoring of critical products like semiconductors and pharmaceutical ingredients.

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