Can Trump really bring down drug prices?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Under the Biden administration, Medicare began negotiating prices on a handful of medications for the first time.
42% : Flanked by his administration's top health officials, Trump told a crowd of reporters that the price of some drugs could come down immediately by between 50% and 90%, and that the US would no longer be in the business of subsidizing the rest of the world's healthcare systems.
39% : But so far, the government has agreed to accept price tags significantly higher than companies charge abroad -- a point Trump brought up in his remarks Monday.
30% : In his speech Monday and his executive order, Trump promised to take several steps to try and bring US costs in line with other countries, using a combination of presidential carrots and sticks.
28% : The so-called "most favored nation" proposal is effectively a revamped version of an idea Trump tried to roll out late in his last term, only to see it halted by the courts.
24% : President Trump has unveiled a plan that he says will dramatically reduce the price Americans pay for prescription drugs, but whether he can deliver on that promise is very much murky.

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