Last November, American voters overwhelmingly sent the GOP to Washington, D.C., to Make Government Small Again.
So, why are Republicans importing socialist drug prices from foreign, single-payer, medical bureaucracies?
This, alas, is exactly what President Donald Trump did on Monday, with a stroke of the First Sharpie. His executive order ties U.S. pharmaceutical costs to the fake rates imposed by statist health schemes overseas.
Dr. Trump correctly diagnoses this disease. His order directs the federal government to “ensure foreign countries are not engaged in any act, policy, or practice that may be unreasonable or discriminatory … and that has the effect of forcing American patients to pay for a disproportionate amount of global pharmaceutical research and development, including by suppressing the price of pharmaceutical products below fair market…
