Senator Warren clashes with health secretary over drug pricing plan
Source: CNBC
President Donald Trump’s point man in the quest to reduce drug prices for American consumers clashed Tuesday with a disbelieving senator, who said the White House’s blueprint for battling Big Pharma is bogus.
The face-off between Health Secretary Alex Azar and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., took place at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Trump’s proposed drug-pricing plan.
“You and President Trump say that you want to get tough on drug companies,” Warren said. “On May 30, the president said that in reaction to the release of the drug-pricing blueprint, drug companies would be ‘announcing voluntary massive drops in prices within two weeks.' "
Warren said that when she and another senator asked the nation’s top 10 drug makers whether they intended to drop prices in response to Trump’s blueprint, “zero out of 10 gave any indication that they planned to do so.”
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I like her demeanor. Serious and down-to-brass-tacks, and not so much of this "SHOWBOATING" and foaming-at-the-mouth and exaggerated attention-seeking gesticulations that we often see from other politicians.
