WASHINGTON — Often, a president’s State of the Union address is a staid affair, with platitudes and calls for bipartisanship and unity.
But President Biden blasted the pharmaceutical industry with its unflattering moniker, “Big Pharma,” not once, but three times Thursday night, only the second time ever that sobriquet has been used in such a setting, after Biden’s address last year.
“We finally beat Big Pharma,” Biden said Thursday. “Medicare will no longer have to pay exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.”
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