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How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor

  • Writer: Leo Zini
    Leo Zini
  • Jan 15
  • 1 min read

A private business has helped supercharge a controversial federal drug program. Patients and insurers have been left with big bills.


Soon after being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, Virginia King sat in an outpatient clinic in Santa Fe, N.M., while a nurse injected her with a powerful drug to slow damage to her spine, where the disease had spread.,,



 
 
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