{"id":13631,"date":"2019-07-22T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2019-07-22T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:59:36","slug":"a-conservative-group-paints-trumps-drug-pricing-experiment-as-socialist-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13631","title":{"rendered":"A Conservative Group Paints Trump\u2019s Drug-Pricing Experiment As \u2018Socialist.\u2019 Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

As part of its effort to curb high prescription drug costs, the Trump administration is considering an experiment that has triggered strong opposition from\u00a0Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist\u2019s powerful conservative organization, which the president typically counts among his supporters.<\/p>\n

One of the most visible elements of the group\u2019s battle plan is a nationwide\u00a0commercial, on which it has spent almost half a million dollars, according to estimates by ad tracker iSpot.tv. It has been on the air since May.<\/p>\n

The Americans for Tax Reform\u2019s ad begins with President Donald Trump saying, \u201cAmerica will never be a socialist country.\u201d<\/p>\n

It then quickly pivots to take aim at the administration.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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