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Sydney Lupkin

White House proposes to 'march in' on patents for costly drugs

Activists protest the prices of prescription drug outside the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., in October 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The Biden administration is taking another crack at high prescription drug prices. This time its sights are set on drugs that rely on taxpayer-funded inventions.

The federal government spends billions of dollars a year on biomedical research that can – and often does – lead to prescription drugs.

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