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Trump’s Maximum Pressure Campaign On US Drug Pricing

 
• By Michael McCaughan

President Trump isn’t going to let the Democrats own the drug pricing debate heading into the 2020 elections, so biopharma companies can look forward to many more headlines like the importation announcement on 31 July. When will it end?

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Trump’s plan, apparently, is to roll out new health care policies every couple of weeks to own the issue heading into election day • Source: Shutterstock

It is shaping up to be a very long presidential campaign cycle in the US for the drug industry.

There are two dozen Democrats campaigning to challenge Donald Trump in 2020, and if two rounds of presidential debates haven’t...

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