Right after Trump blamed high drug prices on campaign cash, drug makers gave more

Kaiser Health News

27 September 2017 - “The cost of medicine in this country is outrageous,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Ky., two months after his inauguration. He went on about how identical pills have vastly lower price tags in Europe.

“You know why?” the president asked, before spreading his hands wide. “Campaign contributions, who knows. But somebody is getting very rich.”

It was 20 March 2017.

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