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Dolat Capital Report
On July 24, the U.S. President Donald Trump issued four Executive Orders on prescription drug pricing which are expected to bring down generics prices and restructure the entire prescription drug market. The orders are as follows:
1) Lowering prices for patients by eliminating kickbacks to middlemen
2) Increasing drug importation to lower prices
3) Access to affordable life-saving medications – insulins and Epipens
4) Adoption of international pricing for Medicare.
This order has been delayed up to August 24, 2020 to provide the industry an opportunity to negotiate contract prices.
The orders do not contain any major new policy changes. Most of the policy changes were included in the Department of Health and Human Services blueprint to lower drug prices and reduce out of pocket expenses released in May 2018. Further, the orders come with certain caveats which might prevent its implementation specially the last order on drug pricing
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