Trump, drug and Executive Order
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President Donald Trump incorrectly placed the blame for high prescription drug prices in the U.S. on foreign nations, making the comments Monday when signing an executive order intended to lower their cost.
Senate Democrats and the Biden administration dropped plans to set drug price caps based on the amount paid in other high-income countries, during talks years ago to push through the law that empowered Medicare to negotiate down the cost of prescription medications.
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 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.
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.
The Trump administration is already gearing up for another round of Medicare drug price negotiations, while OpenAI launched a new evaluation tool.
The administration plans to "eliminate funding that had been used to carry out non-statutory, wasteful and woke activities."
As Maryland negotiates a new health care system, federal government may cut back state’s control over Medicare costs.
Also in this edition of the Minute Briefing, Apple shares edge down after President Trump scolds Chief Executive Tim Cook. UnitedHealth Group shares fall after a Wall Street Journal report of a Medicare fraud investigation.
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