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Buttigieg’s balancing act: He wants far lower drug prices even as he hopes the drug industry will ‘thrive’

  • Nicholas Florko

By Nicholas Florko Oct. 7, 2019

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Pete Buttigieg - Dubuque, Iowa
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WASHINGTON — Just hours after he released an aggressive plan to lower prescription drug prices, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg shared his counterintuitive message for drug makers: “We want you to thrive.”

Thrive, that is, in a way that is “compatible with a decent life for Americans,” he explained during a Monday interview with STAT.

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Nicholas Florko

Nicholas Florko

Reporter, Commercial Determinants of Health

Nicholas Florko reports on the commercial determinants of health.

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