Trump Plan Would Tie Some Drug Prices to What Peer Nations Pay

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The proposal he described, which alone cannot shift federal policy, is what he calls a "most favored nation" pricing model.
54% : President Trump will sign an executive order on Monday aimed at lowering some drug prices in the United States by aligning them with what other wealthy countries pay, he said on Truth Social on Sunday evening.
51% : That plan would have applied only to 50 drugs, administered at clinics and hospitals, that are paid for by Medicare.
47% : "Government price setting in any form is bad for American patients," Alex Schriver, an official at the drug industry's main lobbying group, PhRMA, said in a statement.
41% : " Mr. Trump's embrace of the idea sets him apart from most Republicans, who have tended to be skeptical of government price setting.
38% : In his first term, Mr. Trump tried unsuccessfully to enact a version of this idea for Medicare, the health insurance program that covers 68 million Americans who are over 65 or have disabilities.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.