Opinion | The Right’s Left Turn on Drug Prices

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From WSJopinion: Republicans are worried about their re-election prospects in 2020, and one result is a frenzy to “do something” on high drug prices. Yet two of the latest ideas are standbys of the left.

Republicans are worried about their re-election prospects in 2020, and one result is a frenzy to “do something” on high drug prices. Yet two of the latest ideas are standbys of the left: foreign importation and pricing penalties, which are more about politics than results for patients.

The Trump Administration says it intends to explore ways “to allow safe importation of certain prescription drugs to lower prices and reduce out of pocket costs for American patients,” as Health and Human Services said in a press release.

 

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opinion Actions speak louder than words.

opinion Lying garbage! DJT is the only President to do anything about drug prices. Dems had the House, Senate and Presidency and the prices just went higher. Do not try to take credit for what DJT has done.

opinion digital era the principe is not constrained he can’t constraint inadvertently WakeUp no one have the right to tell you what to drink smoke sniff and eat the freedom enshrined in the preamble of the constitution spirit of law the decision have been made YKUTCZFOOKOO

opinion Drug companies makes 20,000 percent profit. They sell drugs for hundreds that cost cents to make. And the laws make it so you cannot undersell them o even offer an alternative.

opinion If is to do with drug prices. Why, are the same senators on the campaign trail? They have been in the senate long enough to do something for seniors, vets, working poor and the middle class. They have failed miserably. Now they blame POTUS... LOL

opinion Yet the Democrats did nothing but make big pharma and the insurance companies more money while in power.

opinion watch the right wing ideological purity machine strike it down and lose

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