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A year ago, President Trump pledged to lower Medicaid drug prices. Has that happened?

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Sydney Lupkin
A year ago, President Trump pledged to lower Medicaid drug prices. Has that happened?
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When President Trump talks about accomplishments of his second term, he often mentions the deals he's struck with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices.

"We went from the highest prescription drug prices, by far, anywhere in the world, to the lowest prescription drug prices anywhere in the world," Trump said during his remarks at the midterm Republican National Convention in Dallas on Sept 10. "And that alone should get us a big victory in our midterms that are coming up."

Last year on Sept. 30, the president and his health officials gathered in the Oval Office to announce a major agreement with Pfizer — the first of what he said would be a series of deals with pharmaceutical companies. Eventually, the White House said 26 companies signed agreements, but they have not been made public.

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