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, who was the

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. Members of the commission included the

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Commissioner, the Surgeon General, and the

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Commissioner. The Task Force submitted the findings of their comprehensive analysis to

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in 1969. The Task Force documented the state of the American prescription drug market in the 1960s, and influenced Medicare policy in the subsequent decades.

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