White House changes course to kill re­bate re­form

So what ex­act­ly is the White House’s plan to tack­le ris­ing drug prices? It doesn’t look like we will get de­fin­i­tive an­swers any­time soon. On the heels of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s sur­prise rev­e­la­tion that an ex­ec­u­tive or­der is in the works to im­ple­ment a “fa­vored na­tions clause,” his ad­min­is­tra­tion is now putting out word that it has aban­doned an ear­li­er pro­pos­al to over­haul re­bates.

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