President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at slashing out-of-control health care costs by attempting to remove inefficient government practices and encourage more competitive drug pricing.
The executive orders take a wide swath of actions that are intended to improve the Medicare negotiating system, increasing the “competition for high-cost prescriptions drugs,” and lowering the cost of insulin for low-income individuals. In a press call attended by The Daily Wire, a White House official said that “every action” laid out in the executive order is “meant to improve the efficiency of drug pricing in the United States.”
“My first term included numerous significant actions, including some of the most aggressive in recent history, to deliver lower prescription drug prices to American patients,” Trump wrote in the executive order. “The message was…
