Trump kicks off a war of words with the drug lobby, proposing to peg Medicare prices to overseas rates

Trump kicks off a war of words with the drug lobby, proposing to peg Medicare prices to overseas rates

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Trump’s HHS proposed Thursday afternoon to drop the current way that Medicare covers drugs under Part B — calculating the average sales price and adding 6% to the providers who manage the drug supply — and switch to a new system that pegs US prices against the mush lower rates that have been established by single-payer systems abroad.