20 December 2016 - A group of Democratic senators took their plans to tackle rising drug costs to President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, asking him to work with them and Republicans on the issue.

In a letter dated Tuesday, the 19 senators named five areas for cooperation: allowing the Medicare program to negotiate prescription prices, increasing transparency, stopping abusive pricing, passing reform on incentives for innovation and supporting generic competition for branded drugs.

Trump's focus during the presidential election campaign was not on drug prices but on his promise to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, President Barack Obama's signature health reform law passed by Democrats in 2010.

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