Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Are prescription drug prices going down?
15 July 2019 - On a key health-care issue, Trump and Gillibrand made opposite claims within days of each other.
To hear Trump tell it, prescription drug prices have fallen for the first time in 51 years. According to Gillibrand, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, they haven’t fallen.
The White House and Trump’s campaign pointed to the consumer price index for prescription drugs, which have seen annualised declines in six of the last seven months. Gillibrand’s campaign said that the CPI for prescription drugs is flawed and that prices haven’t fallen according to numerous independent studies.
