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Donald Trump: “We were paying the highest prices in the world by far…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump makes announcement with Lee Zeldin

Published | Video Starts at 20:11

And that starts with the fact that prescription drugs are going to be coming down at numbers that nobody's ever seen before. They're falling. You know, We were paying the highest prices in the world by far, sometimes by 10 times more than other countries. Now we're going to be paying whatever the lowest price is anywhere in the world. We're going to be paying that. It's called favored nations, most favored nations. (20:11–20:17)

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Asserts that the U.S. was paying significantly higher prices for prescription drugs compared to other countries.

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