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Trump Issues Executive Orders To Slash Insulin, EpiPen Prices; End ‘Global Freeloading’

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Trump Issues Executive Orders To Slash Insulin, EpiPen Prices; End ‘Global Freeloading’
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President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Friday designed to significantly lower prescription drug prices for Americans, including insulin and epinephrine.

The directives to the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) will “[e]nd a shadowy system of kickbacks by middlemen that lurks behind the high out-of-pocket costs many Americans face at the pharmacy counter,” the department announced Friday, and said they will provide Americans more options on purchasing the drugs.

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