Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2019
Trump has made a priority of trying to lower drug prices. But many of his most ardent supporters don’t know it.
23 August 2019 - The contrast between the two Trump rallies was striking: At one event here in the first primary state in 2016, President Trump railed against the pharmaceutical industry for more than two full minutes — an eternity for one topic in a campaign speech.
Forcefully vowing to reject their donations and pledging to empower Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices to save both voters and the federal government billions, Trump declared: “We’re going to save so much money and those drug companies are going to hate me so much.”
