Trump Plans To Pay For $200 Drug Cards With Favored-Nation Savings

By John Wilkerson / September 24, 2020 at 10:41 PM
The president promised to hand out $200 discount cards to help Medicare Part D beneficiaries cover their copays in the coming weeks, and a White House spokesperson said the administration plans to pay the $6.6 billion cost of those cards with savings from the most-favored-nation demonstration that does not yet exist and that relies on authority from the Affordable Care Act that the administration is trying to kill . The White House tried to get the drug industry to strike...


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