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Here's one reason why health care is so expensive in the USA

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[h=1]Martin Shkreli, Who Raised Drug Prices from $13.50 to $750, Arrested in Securities Fraud Probe[/h]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Shkreli, a lightning rod for growing outrage over soaring prescription drug prices, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday after a federal investigation involving his former hedge fund and a pharmaceutical company he previously headed.

At a Senate hearing on drug pricing last week, a doctor who treats babies with life-threatening toxoplasmosis testified that a course of treatment with Daraprim went from about $1,200 to no less than $69,000.
 
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