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Pfizer agrees to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid in a deal with Trump
['Associated Press']
Longmont Times-Call
By TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE L. PRICEWASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to lower drug costs and invest $70 billion in U.S. manufacturing under a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
The announcement, which Trump made with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the White House, came as the Republican president has for months sought to lower drug costs.
The president has been talking for months about the need to lower drug prices.
In May, he issued an executive order that gave drugmakers 30 days to electively lower prices or face new limits on what the government will pay.
Drug prices for patients in the U.S. can depend on a number of factors, including the competition a treatment faces and insurance coverage.