Health Care
Citing Shkreli, Clinton Targets Drug Speculators
Campaigning in New Hampshire, the Democratic front-runner blasts the infamous Turing drug price hike.
Shkreli and Turing: What’s Next?
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Hillary Clinton told supporters that the pharmaceutical industry is afraid of her and that she intends to tackle skyrocketing drug prices, invoking indicted former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli as she campaigned Tuesday in New Hampshire.
“Right now if you hear the drug companies, [they] are already sort of stirring folks up about me—something they’ve done in the past and they will in the future, I’m sure,” said the Democratic presidential contender, who as first lady in the 1990s tried unsuccessfully to win passage of a health care overhaul.