U.S. President Donald Trump said, "We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30 or 40 percent, which would be great, not 50 or 60, no. We’re gonna get ’em down 1,000 percent, 600 percent, 500 percent, 1,500 percent.”(Photo by CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) POOL/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. President Donald Trump is now promising to get pharmaceutical companies to significantly reduce the drug prices that they are charging Americans. On Thursday, the White House announced that Trump had just sent letters to the heads of 17 major pharmaceutical companies pushing them to cut the prices that Americans have to pay down to the levels that people in other countries pay. It’s not clear yet by what amount—if any—this will eventually get pharmaceutical companies to reduce prescript

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