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Trump Signs Right-to-Try Into Law, Hints at ‘Massive’ Drops in Drug Prices

June 1, 2018

President Trump signed into law the Right-to-Try Act on May 30 establishing a pathway for terminally ill patients to use non-FDA-approved drugs, calling the legislation “great for the people” and a “fundamental freedom,” but it was a castoff remark he made about lower drug prices that had everyone talking.

Trump said unnamed major drugmakers would announce “voluntary massive drops in prices” in “two weeks” adding that “for the first time ever in this country, there will be a major drop in the cost of prescription drugs.”

At a White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House could not provide further details, “but we do expect some specific policy pieces to come out on that soon.”

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