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The US Pays Some of the Highest Drug Prices in the World. Can Trump Fix That?

Season 2025 Episode 7229 | 18m 35s

This week, President Trump issued an executive order aiming to reduce high prescription drug prices and insisting that drug companies ensure Americans pay the same price as other countries. Dr. Jerry Avorn is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss why the cost of medication in the U.S. is so high, and what Trump can do to bring prices down.

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