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DES MOINES — Rallying nurses and steelworkers in a crowded union hall here this week, Bernie Sanders held nothing back as he laid into the pharmaceutical industry.

The industry, as he put it, is “ripping us off.”

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“They are getting away with murder,” Sanders said, “and in some cases they are committing murder.”

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