Pelosi: Crux Of Trump's Drug-Pricing Plan Bad For Sickest Patients

By Donna Haseley / June 4, 2018 at 2:55 PM
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday (June 4) blasted the central piece of President Donald Trump's drug-price containment plan -- shifting Part B drugs to Part D -- as a policy that would raise, not lower, prices for the sickest patients, pointing to findings by AARP and a New York Times article . The House speaker said another potential problem is that the Trump administration hasn't said how drug costs would be handled for the 9 million...


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