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Experts Respond To Trump's Attack On Drug Industry

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Various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. in 2011. (Matt Rourke/AP)
Various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. in 2011. (Matt Rourke/AP)

In his first press conference since becoming the president-elect, Donald Trump went after the drug industry, saying that its practices are "disastrous" and that the industry is "getting away with murder." He called for new bidding procedures for the industry, saying that drug companies are leaving the United States as drug prices continue to rise.

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Deborah Dunsire, former CEO of Forum Pharmaceuticals and of Millennium Pharmaceuticals. She tweets @eradicatecancer.

Don Berwick, pediatrician; former Medicare chief under President Obama; founding president and current senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He tweets @donberwick.

This article was originally published on January 12, 2017.

This segment aired on January 12, 2017.

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