Trump signs executive order setting 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower prescription drug costs
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
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| 0:15.1 | Yesterday, Donald Trump signed that executive order asking drug makers to make prescriptions |
| 0:19.6 | in the U.S. as cheap as other countries. |
| 0:22.5 | If they can't or if they don't, the government's going to force new rules and regulations. |
| 0:27.0 | So the executive order is set for a 30-day deadline to give these drug makers price targets |
| 0:34.3 | set by the Department of Health and Human Services. Okay, so let's talk about this for a second. |
| 0:39.2 | Well, he had his big press conference yesterday while we were on the air. |
| 0:42.8 | That's right. |
| 0:43.6 | And let's lay out what this guy is doing here. |
| 0:46.8 | And it doesn't mean, it doesn't, look, it's not that simple. |
| 0:50.6 | Because if it was that simple, other people would have done it. |
| 0:55.8 | You can't executive order companies into lowering prices on things. You can, but there's going to be intense ramifications. |
| 1:03.7 | And that's really the reality of where we're at is what sort of system do you want to live under? |
| 1:11.2 | It's, it's, when I was a kid, you used to love to read the choose your own adventure novel. |
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| 1:23.9 | And then you'd choose your own adventure based on where you wanted to go. |
| 1:27.7 | And what is, what is clear is yes, other countries. |
| 1:32.4 | Now, I want to preface by saying, yes, the drug manufacturing, the drug manufacturer |
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