Trump administration says lower prices for 15 Medicare drugs will save taxpayers billions of dollars

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  1. These price cuts need to go into effect immediately there’s no reason why these pharmaceutical companies can’t cut the prices. It’s unbelievable what you can buy drugs for in other countries for a third of the price of what you have to pay for them here in the us.

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