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WASHINGTON — Wednesday’s Senate hearing on high costs for insulin “is not the end” of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plans for drug pricing interrogations, he told STAT in an interview. But it will be a show.

The Vermont Independent is bringing executives from drugmakers Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi, along with pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts, OptumRx, and CVS Health, to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee this week.

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“Now [it’s time] for Congress to think big, not small, and to tackle the fundamental issues as to why we pay so much for prescription drugs,” he said.

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