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Coronavirus Special Report: COVID-19 prompts the House to push harder for health care coverage

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves a news conference after the Senate Republican policy luncheon on June 23.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves a news conference after the Senate Republican policy luncheon on June 23. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/POOL)

In today’s episode, we look at how the pandemic is pushing lawmakers to reexamine health care policy, the backlash over pricing for drugmaker Gilead’s experimental COVID-19 drug and how numbers of those infected with the coronavirus continue to soar.

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