Lower Drug Costs Still ‘Absolute Priority’ for Trump, Price Says

Tackling the high price of prescriptions drugs in the U.S. is still “an absolute priority,” Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price told senators Thursday.

Pharmaceutical companies have been the target of President Donald Trump ever since he said they were “getting away with murder” in January. While he has threatened on several occasions to force them to bid for government business as a way to reduce prices, he hasn’t translated the threat into action. For instance, he didn’t include any drug pricing proposals in his recent budget request, a document usually seen as a list of priorities for an administration.