Trump Attacks Drug Makers Over Ads Paid For By Insurers, PBMs

By Ariel Cohen / August 5, 2020 at 12:15 PM
President Donald Trump is attacking drug makers for an ad campaign by insurers and pharmacy benefit managers that criticize his executive order to ban rebates, and, despite Trump’s insistence that drug companies are after him, drug companies and the president both agree on the rebate policy. Trump on July 24 signed an executive order that resurrects a proposed rule his own administration killed last year . Specifically, the order directs HHS to remove the safe harbor for drug rebates in...


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