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Ruben Gallego: “Big pharma execs are sitting in their fancy corner offices…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Trump's Broken Promise: Prescription Drug Costs — Press Conference

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

When big pharma gets richer off the backs of a grandmother struggling to pay for cancer medication, that system is broken. And this is what we're all here about. Big pharma execs are sitting in their fancy corner offices pretty profiting off the sick working class Americans right now. They're just trying to make it. I hear it everywhere I go. People working harder than ever and still falling further and further behind. Prescription drug costs eat away at paychecks. (00:51–00:58)

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Asserts that pharmaceutical executives profit significantly from high drug prices at the expense of working-class Americans.

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