President Donald Trump had promised to lower drug costs, but pharmaceutical companies -- after six months of a self-imposed hiatus on price hikes -- are mostly drifting back toward the status quo. In other pharmaceutical news, expensive hepatitis C drugs aren't being covered for Medicaid patients in Puerto Rico.
from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2Qj77BT
January 04, 2019
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Health News, Kaiser Health News
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