GOP Platform Silent On Drug Cost Fixes, Limiting Tax Benefits For Employer Coverage

By Amy Lotven / July 20, 2016 at 2:36 PM
The GOP platform unveiled this week calls for a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act on the first day of a Republican presidency using waiver authority and blames the ACA for rising drug prices, while making no mention of Donald Trump's campaign proposals to control drug costs through drug importation and Medicare drug price negotiation. According to the platform, the ACA not only “weighs like the dead hand of the past upon American medicine,” it “drove up drug prices...

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