Alex Azar: ‘President Trump Has Done More than Any President in History to Tackle the Issue of Drug Costs’

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AZAR: "So, President Trump has done more than any president in history to tackle the issue of drug costs. You know, he has approved historic levels of generic drugs, these are low cost alternatives to brand drugs. That saves $26 billion in the first two years of his term alone. He is ending foreign free riding off of American investment in R&D. That’s $17.5 billion in savings from the first five years of that program that we’ll be doing. He has freed up pharmacists to tell patients about lower cost alternatives for their drugs and brought new negotiating tools to Medicare programs. So across the board, historic action to blow up the status quo here."