Consumer Confidential: Trump won't lower drug prices
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Feb 02, 2018
4 minutes
President Donald Trump told some whoppers in his State of the Union speech: His tax cuts were the biggest ever (they weren't), he has added 2.4 million new jobs (only if you count former President Obama's last few months in office), wages are finally rising (they've been slowly but steadily climbing for years).
But the one that really got my attention was Trump's declaration that he's committed to addressing "the injustice of high drug prices."
"One of my greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs," he said. "In many other countries, these drugs cost far less
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