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Donald Trump: “We were subsidizing the entire world [in terms of drug…”

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

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Now everybody's wanted favorite nations, but everybody knew it was impossible to get the countries to agree to it because they wouldn't have done. And they've been doing this for 40 years or whatever it is. We were subsidizing the entire world [in terms of drug prices]. That's just one of the many things we're giving. But you should take that thing that's going to save. Now that also when you add that to health care, your drug prices are much lower than what you projected. (1:04:19–1:04:22)

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Asserts that the U.S. was subsidizing global drug prices.

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