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Monday, May 12, 2025

The new order directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to come up with price-cutting goals within 30 days, White House officials said on a call Monday. The move will kick off a round of negotiations between Kennedy and the drug industry. Should talks stall, Kennedy will move to enforce the "most favored nation" pricing model, capping the U.S. prices at the lowest rates paid by other wealthy nations. Most notably, officials said the policy will not be limited to certain drugs under Medicare, as it was in original version, but will also target medications covered by Medicaid and private insurance.

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This seems like an excellent idea.. what's in it for TrumpCo?

#1 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-12 01:28 PM | Reply

What a charade, he tried this in 2020 and the courts stopped it then and they almost certainly will again.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-05-12 01:36 PM | Reply

Breaking: Judge Boasberg has ruled that Americans will still have to pay full price for pharmaceuticals.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-05-12 03:11 PM | Reply

Breaking:The 300 lb------------- is whining about the cost of the fat drug shot.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-12 03:14 PM | Reply

lololololololololol

#5 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-05-13 08:50 PM | Reply

The corrupt criminal can sign all the EO's he wants to ask private companies to lower drug prices and they will ignore it.

This is all performance theatre pretending to care about the problems of everyday Americans.

In the end it will do nothing.

Why didn't ------- demand lower drug prices in his big beautiful grifting bill? Why doesn't he have the GQP pass a bill requiring lower prices?

Because he doesn't care.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-14 09:13 AM | Reply

The US should get a fair rate of return on its investment in medical research.

#7 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-05-14 10:27 AM | Reply

"The US should get a fair rate of return on its investment in medical research."

I kinda think we do get that.

"The country's cancer death rate has declined 33 percent since 1991, thanks largely to cancer research that has led to new treatments, gains in early cancer detection and, most significantly, a sharp decline in tobacco use, according to a new American Cancer Society (ACS) report."
www.cancercenter.com

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 10:36 AM | Reply

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