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The Gap Between the Trump Administration’s Promise of Reducing Rx Costs for Consumers and What People Really Want

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This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S. Foreign governments’ “free-riding” Americans’ investment in innovation.

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CVS + Aetna: Inflection Point in US Healthcare, Merger Approved Update

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I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. By far, the most serious issues facing American healthcare consumers were the lack of (1) affordable care, (2) affordable insurance, and (3) affordable drugs, shown in the bar chart.

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Lower Prescription Drug Prices – A Tri-Partisan Call Across America

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A new poll jointly conducted by Politico and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health bolsters my read on the latter issue – prescription drug pricing, which has become a mass popular culture union. This is the tactic that most Americans say could lower prescription drug prices. Why should U.S.