Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2019
Trump advisers pursue Democratic drug price ideas as campaign looms
2 July 2019 - President Trump was apoplectic about drug prices once again.
A Wall Street Journal story in early January, picked up by Fox News, reported that prices on hundreds of drugs were going up — a slap in the face to a president who had campaigned on lowering costs and accused the pharmaceutical industry of “getting away with murder.”
At a 6 January Camp David meeting, Trump fumed about Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whom he had charged with lowering drug prices, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation. Two days later in the Oval Office, a nervous Azar, who had just returned from vacation, detailed the intricacies of what he was doing to lower prices, leaving the president bored and impatient, according to people close to the situation.
“I don’t understand a word you’re saying,” Trump interrupted. “And no one else will, either.”
