Donald Trump’s promise of sweeping health-care reform has not come to pass. While the president campaigned heavily on assurances to ‘repeal and replace Obamacare’ on 'day one’ with an unspecified plan for every American to have affordable health care, his claims have now been diluted to a focus on 'drug prices.’
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The Trump administration counters with the sketchy argument that the disclosures on television will compel patients to sit down and talk to their doctors about cheaper alternatives, supposedly putting pressure on Big Pharma to reduce prices. But talking to one’s doctor is not going to do the trick. Nor is switching to cheaper drugs always advisable for patients with chronic or serious diseases.