AP FACT CHECK: Trump hype on drug costs, hydroxychloroquine

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making grandiose claims about slashing drug prices and the efficacy of a treatment for COVID-19 that don’t hold up to reality.

In a tweet Sunday, he asserts that he will reduce drug prices by at least 50%. That’s highly unlikely. Measures announced last month by the president will take time to roll out and their effects are uncertain. They also have been less ambitious than a plan by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that passed the House.

Meanwhile, Trump once again asserted that hydroxychloroquine is a drug safe and effective for treating COVID-19, only to be firmly rebutted Sunday by his own testing coordinator, who said people should “move on” to more effective measures, such as social distancing and wearing masks.

A look at Trump’s statements on health care, as well as his distortions over the past week on mail-in voting and Democratic rival Joe Biden’s record:

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1. Hydroxychloroquine is expensive!

I have been taking it for several years now, prescribed to me for Lupus. While my co-pay is only $10.00, I see that my insurance company is charged $300.00+ /month.

Someone somewhere is making lots of money off of that drug, which was developed for treating (or preventing?) Malaria originally, and is taken by millions and millions of people worldwide.

I really resisted taking it because of the side effects, primarily over long term use, (which would be me, unfortunately), it can cause blindness.

So there is additional costs to taking it because I have to go every 6 months for several eye tests, and each visit is $40.00 co-pay. Should the eye doctor discover that it is impairing my eyesight, I have to make a choice. If I don't take it, I get this rash on my head/face and then my hair falls out.

Vision or Vanity? I would have to go with the vision.

My point is saying it is a totally safe drug is just ridiculous.

I'd like to see an in-depth investigation that follows the money.