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Offline endicom

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Trump brings free market to prescription drugs (Medicare Advantage)
« on: August 09, 2018, 12:50:01 am »
Don Surber
Aug. 8, 2018

Companies offering Medicare Advantage will be able to shop around for the best drug prices, as President Trump's administration introduces more capitalism into American health care.

Earlier, the administration announced hospitals will have to post prices online.

Now drugs.

"Drugmakers will be required to negotiate on prices for more medications paid for by Medicare, the latest step in the Trump administration’s campaign to rein in prescription costs," Bloomberg News reported.

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Re: Trump brings free market to prescription drugs (Medicare Advantage)
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2018, 04:23:09 am »
This is one of Trump's lies/flip-flops that I support. His whole plan of having the federal bureaucracy negotiate wasn't going to work without a lot of changes.
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