Don­ald Trump promis­es (again) to slash drug prices sub­stan­tial­ly; 'and it’s go­ing to be beau­ti­ful’

Near the be­gin­ning of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion, the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the coun­try made waves in bio­phar­ma with his re­peat­ed in­sis­tence that he would roll out new ini­tia­tives that would slash the price of drugs.

Noth­ing much came out of that, ex­cept for the FDA’s move to ramp up ap­provals for new gener­ics, which has no im­pact on the price of brand­ed drugs still equipped with patent pro­tec­tion, which draw the most heat from re­form ad­vo­cates.

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