Donald Trump in The Associated Press


On Health Care: FactCheck: No massive prices cuts for prescription drugs

TRUMP: I'm cutting drug prices. I'm going with Favored Nations. Drug prices will be coming down 80 or 90%. So we're cutting healthcare. Prescription drug prices, we're going to allow our Governors now to go to other countries to buy drugs because when they paid just a tiny fraction of what we do.

FactCheck by Associated Press, Aug. 3, 2020: Actually, no massive, across-the-board cuts are in the offing for drug prices. Efforts announced last month by the president--such as allowing importation of medicines from countries where prices are lower--take time to roll out. It remains to be seen how much they'll move the needle on prices. Drug importation, for example, requires regulatory actions to be taken and supply chains to be established.

Source: Associated Press Fact-Check: First 2020 Presidential Debat Sep 29, 2020

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