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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