President Trump expected to sign executive orders on drug pricing & health care
Source: KARK
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) President Donald Trump is expected to sign several executive orders related to health care and drug prices Friday afternoon.
The Trump administration has had ongoing efforts to reduce drug prices.
According to reports, one of the executive orders would shorten the timeline for a proposed initiative to allow states, wholesalers and pharmacies to import certain drugs from Canada.
Another order is expected to take on Medicares drug prices, bringing it more in line with prices in other countries.
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jorgevlorgan
(8,335 posts)I bet it will still find a way to funnel unnecessarily large amounts to the drug companies
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)He will lie and tell his #Cult45ers that he's done what he promised during his campaign....Hope we don't let him get aways with it.
marybourg
(12,637 posts)plan to replace Obamacare. No wonder it took 3 1/2 years; its so brilliant and complex
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)until you get sick.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Just like his party.
EOs give him a reason to be on TV, which is all he cares about.
paleotn
(17,989 posts)He can say the sun rises in the west, but that doesn't make it so.
Oh, and Canada isn't going to allow the US to use them as a prescription wholesale warehouse. Like most things Donnie, it just doesn't work that way.
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)I can guarantee there is something in the executive orders that siphons a shit load of money for his cronies.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)For his stupid orders and those orders ignored.
Fuck what republicans want,and fuck them all.
edhopper
(33,623 posts)without Congress.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)On edit: at least it appears to be decent. As someone said above, there may be a catch. Probably is.
noneof_theabove
(410 posts)I have had HEP-C1a for 30 years and had 5 hard cancers [3 30mm and 2 15mm] remove since Oct 2019.
No I finally got into a internal doctor [covid messed everything up].
what is the cost for 3rd generation Harvoni? $89,000 US but if the fckng doctors would have given
me and Rx back in March, I was willing to support Canada and purchase the same thing for $700US
qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)Couldn't this have been done in 2017? Was he purposely waiting until August 2020 so that he could look good in November?
Gawd, this man makes me sick.