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Drug executives grilled in Senate over high prices

February 26, 2019 at 4:49 p.m. EST
Senators chastised drug company executives during a hearing over high cost of prescription medications on Feb. 26. (Video: Luis Velarde/The Washington Post)

Top pharmaceutical executives lined up at a Senate hearing Tuesday and expressed deep compassion for patients suffering from disease. They decried high co-payments that shock consumers at the pharmacy counter. They denounced rebates they pay to insurance companies.

But while they were eager to indict a system they said is badly broken, they declined to commit to lowering their own prices.