Big Pharma companies often say that drugs “need” to be expensive to fund research. What they don’t tell you is that they use *publicly-funded research* for expensive, privatized drugs.

This week on Oversight, @RoKhanna and I exposed how this scheme works:pic.twitter.com/ELbllU3Fxy

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 1, 2019

This is nuts - even I had no idea about this. https://t.co/5CvMEtSBQV

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 1, 2019