President Donald Trump told drugmakers at a White House meeting Tuesday they were charging "astronomical" prices and promised to get better bargains for government health programs, in addition to finding ways to get new medicines to market faster.

"The pricing has been astronomical," Trump said to chief executives of some of the world's biggest drugmakers, who came to Washington after Trump's criticism of the industry earlier this month sent drug and biotechnology stocks plunging.

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