
Trump is kicking the can down the road today, avoiding any tough prescriptions on drug pricing
BIOREGNUM — The view from John Carroll
President Donald Trump has found the enemy on drug prices, and they’re outside our borders.
Administration officials offered reporters a preview of Trump’s speech this afternoon, and the detailed notes provided in a slate of stories about the backgrounder includes the president’s assault on other countries’ single-payer systems. Those countries, or rather the rest of the industrialized world, he says, have been “free-riding” on the US, where high drug prices subsidize an industry forced to cut prices abroad.
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