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Trump's Greatest Hits: Drug Price Controls As Part Of The Repertoire

 
• By Cathy Kelly

President's pledge to merge drug pricing control with a revamp of the Affordable Care Act wins applause at Kentucky rally, where the president reeled through a number of his populist issues, even as the idea makes scant legislative progress.

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Legislation establishing prescription drug price controls through a government-run "competitive bidding" process will be included in one of the bills that will repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Donald Trump promised at a rally in Louisville, Ky. March 20.

Trump raised drug pricing at the campaign-style rally as one of his now-familiar populist issues, which also includes revoking the...

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