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Trump succeeds where Washington failed on drug prices

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19.02.2026

The public pays more for prescription drugs than patients in other high-income countries — 36% more, according to an authoritative study. Those higher prices have been a painful reality for decades. Politicians of both parties have said they’d do something about it. But nothing ever happened. 

President Donald Trump proved otherwise. He has delivered a rapid revolution in drug pricing – and he’s done so through bold and visionary leadership. Critics who refuse to give him credit are nothing more than political grandstanders — the same grandstanders that stifle meaningful policy reform in Washington time and time again.

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The conventional wisdom has always been that elected officials couldn’t defeat the pharmaceutical industry. But Trump has never been afraid to break with the conventional wisdom.

He advanced the principle of fairness through “most favored nation” pricing. He asked a simple question: Why should Americans pay dramatically more for the same drugs than........

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