Trump, drug and Executive Order
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The U.S. Congress should enact steeper work requirements for Medicaid and food aid in a tax cut and spending plan being advanced by Republicans, four senior Trump administration officials said in a New York Times opinion column.
President Trump will introduce a "most favored nation" plan aimed at cutting Medicare drug prices by linking them to the prices of medication abroad, sources told CBS News.
President Donald Trump is attempting to slash drug prices for Americans by more closely aligning their costs to lower prices paid abroad, renewing and expanding upon a failed push from his first term.
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This is misleading. Prices for most prescription drugs — unbranded generics are the exception — are higher in the U.S. than they are in other high-income countries.
The administration plans to "eliminate funding that had been used to carry out non-statutory, wasteful and woke activities."
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order soon to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. The order would implement a “most favored nation” policy, tying the prices of certain Medicare-covered drugs to those paid by other developed countries.
As leaders of the agencies that oversee the largest welfare programs in the nation, we fear that welfare has become a trap of dependency.
Americans pay significantly more for prescription medications, with branded drugs in the U.S. costing about three times more than those in other countries.