Trump signs bills to elim­i­nate phar­ma­cy ‘gag’ claus­es

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Wednes­day signed in­to law two bills that mean all phar­ma­cists are now al­lowed to in­form pa­tients of whether they can pur­chase med­i­cines for less mon­ey.

The so-called “gag claus­es” pre­vi­ous­ly re­strict­ed phar­ma­cists from in­form­ing pa­tients of what the new law calls “any dif­fer­en­tial be­tween the ne­go­ti­at­ed price of, or co­pay­ment or coin­sur­ance for, the drug or bi­o­log­i­cal to the en­rollee un­der the plan and a low­er price the in­di­vid­ual would pay for the drug or bi­o­log­i­cal if the en­rollee ob­tained the drug with­out us­ing any health in­sur­ance cov­er­age.”

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