Did President Trump just jump the shark on drug prices?
President Donald Trump has vowed repeatedly to slash drug prices, frequently trashing greedy pharma companies and their pricing policies. And in remarks he made before meeting with the Congressional Black Congress Wednesday, Trump has now gone even further, promising to try and make drugs sold in the US — currently the highest priced in the world — into the world’s cheapest.
His comment:
But we’re going to bid on drug prices, and we’re going to try and have the lowest prices anywhere in the world, from really the highest. And that’s not only the drugs, it’s prescription drugs. But you go out to stores and you go even — in any community, rich or poor community, and you look at the kind of drug prices that we’re paying and it’s really unfair what’s happened in our country.
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