Donald Trump’s health-care chief said he plans to take up thepresident’s promises to do something about pharmaceutical prices, targeting some of theU.S.’s costliest drugs with proposals to reducepatients’ out-of-pocket spending.
“The president is firmly committed in this space,” Health andHuman Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a briefing withreporters Thursday. “I am now less than two weeks on the job andhave been working a great deal, let’s just say, on these issuesalready. We do think drug prices are too high.”
Azar laid out several ideas that will appear in Trump’s budgetproposal when it’s released Monday. Many would have to belegislated by Congress, which typically ignores presidents’ budgetsand lays out its own framework.
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