President Donald Trump met with leading drugmakers at the White House on Tuesday, jawboning them to produce their medications in the United States and to cut “astronomical” drug prices.
Trump also blasted foreign countries, which he said have been “freeloading” on the United States with price controls that limit what their own citizens can be charged for medications. And he vowed to use the purchasing power of the U.S. government, the world’s largest drug purchaser, to push the price of medications down.
