Sen. Bernie Sanders, pictured at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, hammered the CEO of drugmaker Novo Nordisk on Tuesday in a hearing on the price of its medicines.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, pictured at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, hammered the CEO of drugmaker Novo Nordisk on Tuesday in a hearing on the price of its medicines.
Mandatory Credit: Bernadette Tuazon/CNN via CNN Newsource

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‘Greed, greed, greed’: Sanders demands Ozempic maker lower prices

While grilling Novo Nordisk’s chief executive over the price of its blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders alleged that 40,000 people a year in the US could die if the company doesn’t make the medicines more affordable.