Headline RoundupMay 12th, 2018
President Trump Unveils Plan to Lower Prescription Drug Prices
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Trump pledged on Friday to lower prescription drug prices, unveiling modest policy proposals that many on the Left and the Center say pivot sharply from his campaign promise to allow Medicare to negotiate directly with drug companies. The Right emphasized his tough rhetoric and highlighted Trump's plan to take on foreign countries who he says pay subsidized prices at America's expense.
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From the Left
Big Pharma Gets a Big Win From TrumpThe Atlantic
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The president campaigned on stinging criticisms of the pharmaceutical industry and promises to use Medicare to lower drug prices. But none of that materialized in his drug-pricing speech this week.
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From the Right
Trump vows to lower US drug prices by ending ‘global freeloading,’ taking on industryFox News (Online News)
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President Trump on Friday unveiled his administration’s plan for lowering prescription drug prices, vowing to “take on” the powerful pharmaceutical industry while calling for an end to “global freeloading” that has allowed foreign countries to pay less for American medicine.
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Trump assails high drug prices, avoids direct hit on industryReuters
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday blasted drugmakers and healthcare “middlemen” for making prescription medicines unaffordable for Americans, but healthcare stocks
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87% of U.S. adults "say it is very or somewhat important that health insurance companies are prohibited from charging sick people higher premiums than healthy people even if the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court."
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