Stop gouging Medicare! Trump tells pharma CEOs to cut costs and bring back jobs as he pledges to shorten FDA drug approval times and cut regulations by up to 80 PER CENT
President hosted a roundtable of pharma executives at the White House
Told them taxpayers expect lower drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid
Also asked them to build more factories and employ more people in the U.S.
Trump said he would slash FDA drug approval wait-times
Promised to reduce regulatory burdens by up to 80 per cent
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:53 EST, 31 January 2017 | Updated: 11:27 EST, 31 January 2017
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President Donald Trump met with CEOs of some of America's biggest and most profitable pharmaceutical companies at the White House on Tuesday, saying he expects them to lower drug prices and bring jobs back to the United States.
'You folks have done a terrific job over the years, but we have to get prices down for a lot of reasons. We have no choice,' Trump said.
'For Medicare, for Medicaid, we have to get the prices way down.'
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