Trump tries to reduce drug prices through medicating and some imports
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday, outlining a series of actions intended to reduce drug prices, including states to import drugs from Canada.The policies were more modest than the proposals to reduce drug prices offered by Trump in his first term.And one of its new directives could increase drug prices. He asks the Trump administration to work with the congress to modify a 2022 law in a way that could debut a negotiation program intended to reduce the expense of medicating for commonly used or expensive drugs.This change has the potential to increase the costs for the government, because it would most likely delay the existing calendar so that some drugs become suitable for cuts at the prices of medicating.Depending on how it is structured, the expense of medicines to m...