The president this weekend repeated his promise to get pharma corporations to decrease the price of medicines for People, who typically must pay rather more for sure medicine than folks overseas.
However the precise quantity of the “super drop” in price that Trump boasted about had critics scratching their heads.
“You realize, we’ve minimize drug costs by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%,” Trump stated.
“I don’t imply 50%. I imply 14, 1,500%,” he added.
However as many on social media identified, that might imply all medicine are free and folks truly receives a commission to obtain them.
Additionally, drug costs haven’t truly come down, regardless of Trump’s strain on pharmaceutical corporations. Trump appeared to acknowledge that when he later stated, “We’ll be dropping drug costs … by 1,200, 1,300 and even 1,400% and 500% however not simply 50% or 25%, which usually could be quite a bit as a result of the remainder of the world pays a lot much less for the an identical drug.”
Actuality is “eroding earlier than our eyes,” stated one critic. Others agreed.
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