{"id":11853,"date":"2018-10-29T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2018-10-29T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:22:11","slug":"trump-adds-a-global-pricing-plan-to-wide-attack-on-drug-prices-but-doubts-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11853","title":{"rendered":"Trump Adds A Global Pricing Plan To Wide Attack On Drug Prices, But Doubts Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s new pledge to crack down on \u201cthe global freeloading\u201d in prescription drugs had a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n<p>Five months ago, Trump unveiled\u00a0a blueprint\u00a0to address prohibitive drug prices, and his administration has been feverishly rolling out ideas ranging from posting drug prices on television ads to changing the rebates that flow between drugmakers and industry middlemen. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/trump-adds-a-global-pricing-plan-to-wide-attack-on-drug-prices-but-doubts-persist\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=67041069&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9BTob6wsY-z5eUEMr8eJYrE_mkS430A3_9jlL0zk11RS8h8lpzGFlZ1h34WTdF_6Jk_u27ioldz1t4YU6nM39uBql0uw&amp;_hsmi=67041069\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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