Trump Officials Met with Walmart on Direct-to-Patient Drug Sales

USA Health officials, Walmart Inc. And with other retailers, they brought together as part of the effort to help Americans get their medication more directly than companies that make their medication directly.

Trump management and the new straight consumer drugs from the drug industry experts, people who are not authorized to speak publicly, people who aim to explore the way Americans take their drugs, he said.

People, USA Ministry of Health and Human Services officials carried out the meeting to discuss the options, he said. It was not clear what the approach of the department and the timeline would be in such an attempt.

Walmart and HHS refused to comment.

Reducing the drug prices of America, which is currently the highest in the world, is one of President Donald Trump’s best health policy targets. In May, he signed an executive order in the pharmaceutical industry, which invites to reduce costs to the lowest level paid by similar countries. Some of this offer told HHS to help Americans buy the drug directly at these low prices.

One of the reasons why drugs are so expensive in the US is that they go through many bureaucratic steps before reaching a patient.

Most American drugs take their drugs primarily from pharmacies paid by insurance companies. Insurers work with other companies called pharmacy advantage managers to negotiate prices with producers. This process includes discounts, a fee that critics say that the costs are inflating and that the industry is necessary to prevent drug producers from collecting exorbitant prices. Trump has been talking about breaking PBMS since his first administration.

Walmart began to offer prescription delivery in October and made him a competitor to Amazon.com Inc. in space.

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