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Mehmet Oz: “We are reversing that trend and making sure that Americans…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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President Trump Makes an Announcement on Lowering Drug Prices

Published | Video Starts at 23:24

And that's why we've gotten to the finish line. The prices that President Trump left to the next administration on pharmaceuticals have gone up 25% until the President took office. We are reversing that trend and making sure that Americans can afford to get the life saving solutions. Because if these brilliant innovators create solutions to cancer and hypertension, hepatitis and a bunch of other viruses, illnesses that have been lethal throughout human history, but you can't afford them, then we're not treating you fairly. (23:24–23:31)

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Asserts that efforts are being made to reverse the trend of rising pharmaceutical prices.

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