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Drug pricing advocates to spend $1M on ads supporting Trump proposal

A drug pricing advocacy group is launching a $1 million ad campaign to promote a Trump administration proposal to align American drug prices with those in other wealthy nations.

WASHINGTON — A drug pricing advocacy group on Thursday announced a roughly $1 million ad campaign to boost a Trump administration proposal to align American drug prices with those in other wealthy nations, providing an outside boost to a policy concept that the drug industry has vocally opposed.

The same advocacy group, Patients for Affordable Drugs, via its political arm to endorse

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