Donald Trump, the popular populist, is ushering in a new era of prescription drug prices.
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Let's look at this a little closer.
From CBS News:
Pfizer has agreed to offer significantly discounted prices for some prescription drugs for all American consumers and has committed to offer prescription medications to Medicaid at lower prices, President Trump announced Tuesday. The president said the drugs will be available for purchase online on a website operated by the federal government, which the White House has said will be called 'TrumpRx.'
The most beautiful name possibly ever imagined for a government-run discount prescription drug website!
More:
The Pfizer agreement is a part of the White House agenda to secure 'most favored nation' pricing with pharmaceutical manufacturers. In May, Mr. Trump signed an executive order calling on drugmakers to lower their prices and bring them in line with what other high-income countries pay for the same drugs. He threatened to subject them to steep caps on how much they can earn from Medicare if they failed to do so.
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The president's announcement comes days after he announced that on Wednesday, the U.S. would begin imposing a 100% tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product 'unless a Company IS BUILDING their Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in America.'
And just like that, Americans have cheaper prescription drugs!
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