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The Senate hearing on high drug prices served mostly as a retreading of arguments that lawmakers and the pharmaceutical industry have spent years fine-tuning, STAT explains. The hearing had all the makings of a high-profile Washington event, but the seven pharma executives largely dodged the tougher lines of questioning from the mostly staid committee members and slipped away from most attempts to shame them for perceived bad behavior. And the committee members offered less bombastic salvos than the diatribes from some presidential aspirants.

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