White House: Trump re­mains com­mit­ted to Medicare drug price ne­go­ti­a­tions

Pres­i­dent Trump is stick­ing to his guns on get­ting Medicare to ne­go­ti­ate drug prices.

Dur­ing a re­cent sit-down with Big Phar­ma ex­ecs, the pres­i­dent made a ref­er­ence to price fix­ing by Medicare that caused some ob­servers to say that he was back­ing off a com­mit­ment to take the cuffs off the big fed­er­al health pro­gram for se­niors and get them to lever­age low­er prices on ther­a­peu­tics — which he feels have be­come out­ra­geous­ly high.

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