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Alvaro Garza: Letting big pharma fox guard the healthcare hen house

I suggest that more people should demand that our senators, Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, not support Alex Azar, former president of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Our health/illness-care system already puts profits over people. With Azar, it is highly likely to get worse.

Alvaro Garza, Modesto

This story was originally published December 19, 2017 at 11:56 AM with the headline "Alvaro Garza: Letting big pharma fox guard the healthcare hen house."

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