{"id":24263,"date":"2025-04-16T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24263"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:42:51","slug":"trump-signs-executive-action-to-lower-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24263","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump signed an executive action Tuesday intended to lower prescription drug prices for Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters ahead of the signing that the move would include &#8220;delivering lower prices to seniors&#8221; and improve the Medicare drug price negotiation program, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act that passed in 2022.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/04\/15\/nx-s1-5366067\/trump-medicare-lower-drug-prices\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/04\/15\/nx-s1-5366067\/trump-medicare-lower-drug-prices\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR) President Trump signed an executive action Tuesday intended to lower prescription drug prices for Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,15],"tags":[385,238,61,65],"class_list":["post-24263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24264,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions\/24264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}