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enterprise run free and reduce the cost of healthcare and get more healthcare for less, just as we do with lasik surgery, costs 40% less, nominal dollars than it did 12 years ago. david: that's because it is a free market. >> it is a free market. >> when you haul the pharma ceos on capitol hill talking about drug prices, why does it cost more in the u.s. to buy your pills than around the world? >> for a basic reason, we provide the 2.6 billion dollars -- >> in research and development. >> -- in research and development and other countries don't pay for it. they have governments to say to these pharmaceutical companies in effect with all the subtlety of tony soprano you don't give us this at a basic cost, we're going to steal it from you. >> then you let them get ridiculous patents, though, too steve so these drugs can't go generic so you can't have competition. i will tell you, jack, president trump has taken a pretty hard-line on drug prices this year. that's one of the things he's laid out pretty explicitly. -- >> jawboning though. prices went up the first couple days of this year. it was jawb

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