WASHINGTON — Alex Azar has been on the job for less than a month, but President Trump believes his new health and human services secretary is making progress toward a feat that’s long bedeviled politicians and a host of other health care experts: lowering drug prices. “Secretary Alex Azar...
ACP did not offer public comments to the HHS this year, but itissued a position paper in 2016that described ways it felt drug costs could be lowered. The College and AAFP are also among the medical societi...
But in just a few weeks, the Trump Administration will finalize rules requiring federally funded health centers to pass drug company discounts on insulin and EpiPens directly to patients. “Already, we’ve successfully lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years,” Trump sa...
Lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years. Launched an initiative to stop global freeloading in the drug market. Finalized a rule to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada. Finalized the Most Favored Nation Rule to ensure that pharmaceutical companies offer the same disco...
Two years ago, Congress passed and President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, broad legislation that aimed to lower drug prices and spur investments in climate and domestic energy. Republicans say the law isn't what's helped bring down inflation, and they claim the government spending th...
Half True.Biden touted his efforts to reduce prescription drug costs by referring to the $35 monthly insulin price cap his administration put in place as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. But he initially flubbed the number during the debate, saying it was lowered to $15. In his cl...
BIDEN'S CLAIM: "He has executive orders that have no power. He hasn't lowered drug costs for anybody." FACT CHECK: Trump signed an executive order in September aimed at lowering drug costs by trying to reduce the prices Medicare pays for prescription drugs, but experts have said it is u...
Biden has shown what it means to make health care better. He has lowered prescription drug and insurance costs, helped families enroll in coverage, and taken on big drug companies and other corporate interests. Trump’s plan to further weaken health care will only take us backward, leave milli...
That government-backed aid, originally passed during the pandemic under the American Rescue Plan in 2021, has significantly lowered the costs of coverage for people buying health insurance plans onthe ACA marketplace. Those customers include anyone who doesn't have access to a workplace plan, such...
Trump tweeted: “Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President’s Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!” The next day, Trump reaffirmed his initial comments, telling reporters: “I think there is blame on both sides.” On September ...