Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is crediting a political rival for setting in motion President Donald Trump's newest policy aimed at lowering prescription drug prices: Bernie Sanders.

During his first term, Trump in 2020 had pushed a similar "most favored nation" rule for drug prices that would have applied to Medicare payments but was later rescinded by the Biden administration.

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the ... More U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on October 06, 2022 in ...

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"That translates to about a difference of eight pounds on average between the two drugs," Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News ...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits over what the ...

According to the order, the government will impose prices and take other "aggressive measures" if companies do not offer the drugs at the prices set by the administration. "We will no longer ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs took drugs “every day” — including sometimes downing Obama-shaped ecstasy pills, his ex-personal assistant told jurors Tuesday. “There were various pills ...

CLAIM: “We were subsidizing others’ healthcare, the countries where they pay a small fraction of what — for the same drug that what we pay, many, many times more for, and will no longer ...

Also, drugmakers must start offering US patients the lowest price paid for a drug in a peer country, known as the “Most Favored Nation” price, or face consequences, the president said.

The president announced an executive order aimed at lowering U.S. drug costs, revisiting an idea that was blocked in court during his first term. By Rebecca Robbins and Margot Sanger-Katz May 12 ...