Trump plans executive order limiting Medicare drug costs

President Donald Trump said Friday that the White House is writing an executive order to require pharmaceutical companies to offer the U.S. government among the lowest prices in the world.

His meaning was not immediately clear to many experts on the country’s health care system.

“We’re working on a favored-nation clause, where we pay whatever the lowest nation’s price is,” Trump said to reporters Friday, specifying that an “executive order” is in the works. “Why should other nations like Canada — why should other nations pay much less than us? They’ve taken advantage of the system for a long time, pharma.”

The administration is working on a plan that would use an index of international drug prices to set the price that Medicare pays for some drugs that are administered by doctors, such as cancer treatments. victory.”

The era that Trump was referring to predated human flight by nearly a century, so there were no airports to seize.

On Friday, Trump chalked up his mistake to teleprompter problems and the rain.

“The teleprompter did go out, and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it, but despite the rain, it was just a fantastic evening,” Trump told reporters, according to Time magazine. S-400 air-defense missile system to NATO member Turkey in the coming days, a Kremlin spokesman said Friday. The deal is likely to trigger U.S. sanctions and test the bonds of the Western military alliance.

President Donald Trump has publicly shown sympathy for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s position on the Russian missile purchase. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, however, has warned of tough measures that could include canceling the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey.

NATO has expressed worry that the S-400 is incompatible with Turkey’s possession of the U.s.-made F-35s and would give Russia access to secrets of its stealth technology.