Clinton campaign staff: "We have started the war with pharma!!"
Just one Tweet from Hillary Clinton drove biotech stocks down sharply last fall, the opening round in what would be a savage bear market for the industry. And her senior staffers in the campaign were delirious.
Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous. Tomorrow I'll lay out a plan to take it on. -H https://t.co/9Z0Aw7aI6h
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 21, 2015
Clinton had jabbed Martin Shkreli hard for his decision to jack up the price of Daraprim by more than 5,000%, and the sharp, swift reaction on Wall Street to the message on drug prices was cheered by her senior policy advisers, according to one of several email exchanges included in WikiLeaks hacked John Podesta files.
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