The Biden administration has decided not to take measures to lower the cost of an astronomically expensive cancer drug. John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, and Emma Vigeland discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
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"In the summer of 2020, then-California Attorney General Xavier Becerra demanded the Trump administration use existing law to lower the price of medicines that were originally developed at taxpayer expense.
'We cannot afford to leave the supply of this critical medication to chance and the whims of the marketplace when it was funded in part by taxpayer dollars,' Becerra wrote in a letter to the Trump administration in response to the high price of Remdesivir, which treats COVID-19.
Less than three years later, the agency run by Becerra � now Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary in the Biden administration � just rejected the same demand from two cancer patients unable to afford the $180,000-a-year price of a medicine whose development was originally funded by the public."
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