Trump will not call for negotiation on Medicare drug prices

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/387198-trump-will-not-call-for-negotiation-on-medicare-drug-prices-despite

President Trump's drug pricing plan will not include a call for Medicare to negotiate drug prices, a leading Democratic idea that Trump previously supported, a senior administration official said Thursday.

“We're not calling for Medicare negotiation in the way that Democrats have called for,” the official said on a call with reporters previewing Trump’s speech on drug prices scheduled Friday.

However, the official said there will be other proposals to increase competition in Medicare, likely using private sector players rather than Medicare directly negotiating prices.

Democrats have been pressuring Trump ahead of his speech to renew his call for Medicare to negotiate drug prices, something that Trump touted on the campaign trail in 2016, in a break with Republican party orthodoxy.

“We're setting a high standard and hope that his proposal will meet that because we'd love to work in a bipartisan way to reduce costs,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said at a press conference on drug prices Thursday ahead of Trump’s speech.

Instead of returning to the Medicare negotiation idea which would also have little if any chance of passing a Republican Congress, officials said Trump will propose a range of other ideas to bring down drug prices on Friday, though they did not get into details on what they will be.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said earlier Thursday that the plan will go after “all aspects” of the drug pricing system, including going after drug companies directly.

However, much of the action is expected to be aimed at negotiators known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as opposed to drug companies themselves. PBMs have come under scrutiny for a lack of transparency, and lobbyists say reforms to their system of getting discounts from drug companies are likely.

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Another broken campaign promise. Nancy better go hard on him for this!

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8 minutes ago, Born To Slay said:

Another broken campaign promise. Nancy better go hard on him for this!

Unfortunately, the conservative core base is mostly brainwashed and will likely believe this is either a) the right call thanks to some Fox News spin (if they even report on it) or that b) this was in fact, the plan all along, Trump's a genius  

Then again, they might not even understand the importance of this  If they were anti-Obamacare, but actively benefitted from it, and still managed to be pro the tax bill despite being harmed by it, I'm just saying  No shade intended, just the facts.

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Just now, ItsTommyBitch said:

Unfortunately, the conservative core base is mostly brainwashed and will likely believe this is either a) the right call thanks to some Fox News spin (if they even report on it) or that b) this was in fact, the plan all along, Trump's a genius  

Then again, they might not even understand the importance of this  If they were anti-Obamacare, but actively benefitted from it, and still managed to be pro the tax bill despite being harmed by it, I'm just saying  No shade intended, just the facts.

This is why education is so fúcking important. I’m sick and tired of the uneducated and the ignorant fùcking it up for the rest of us 

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1 minute ago, ItsTommyBitch said:

Unfortunately, the conservative core base is mostly brainwashed and will likely believe this is either a) the right call thanks to some Fox News spin (if they even report on it) or that b) this was in fact, the plan all along, Trump's a genius  

Then again, they might not even understand the importance of this  If they were anti-Obamacare, but actively benefitted from it, and still managed to be pro the tax bill despite being harmed by it, I'm just saying  No shade intended, just the facts.

Trumps dumbass base might go along with this but I think swing voters, won't be happy. Now the democrats need to attack Trump for being soft on Pharmaceutical companies.