“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.
” Vice President Kamala Harris at the ABC News presidential debate, Sept. 10 Since Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, she and former President Donald Trump have sparred over their approaches to lowering prescription drug costs. Harris has described this as an important campaign promise that Trump made but didn’t deliver on.
This story also ran on . It can be . “Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices,” Harris said during the on Sept.
10 in Philadelphia. “He never did. We did.
” She that Trump’s promise to pursue such negotiations “never happened” during his administration. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump , if elected, to take steps to allow the government to negotiate drug prices. He never enacted such a policy in office.
The Trump administration pursued smaller, temporary programs aimed at lowering drug costs. However, experts say the effect of Trump’s moves fell far short of the expected effect of the Medicare drug price negotiation program included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and of what Trump promised. The Inflation Reduction Act — a sweeping climate and health care law Biden signed in August 2022 — included a measure authorizing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare prescription drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.
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