Cenk Uygur
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Trump's HHS Pick: Alex Azar, a Big Pharma Insider Who Pushed Drug Price Increases For a Decade
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November 27, 2017
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6:10Now PlayingTYT Contributor David Sirota discusses Donald Trump's pick for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary: Alex Azar. Unsurprisingly, Azar's résumé is exactly like all of Trump's other picks: exactly the opposite of what you would hope for. Azar was president of Eli Lilly during a period of exponential drug-price increases, and Eli Lilly has been lobbying HHS for years for changes that would help drugmakers at the expense of the public.
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