Three con­sid­er­a­tions for the phar­ma in­dus­try as Pres­i­dent Trump fo­cus­es on drug pric­ing

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by PwC Health Ad­vi­so­ry: Kar­la An­der­son, Rick Ed­munds, Phil Sclafani, Doug Strang and Will Su­vari

As a pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump re­peat­ed­ly de­cried drug prices, sug­gest­ing that Amer­i­cans should be al­lowed to pur­chase the prod­ucts from abroad and that Medicare should be al­lowed to ne­go­ti­ate their prices. As pres­i­dent, he has con­tin­ued to talk about drug pric­ing. Ad­dress­ing Con­gress on Feb. 28, Trump said he would “work to bring down the ar­ti­fi­cial­ly high cost of drugs, and bring them down im­me­di­ate­ly.”

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