WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her long-awaited plan to lower drug prices Thursday.
The progressive plan gives Democrats an aggressive counter to the White House’s numerous and widely covered efforts to lower drug prices. But the plan also serves, in some ways, as an olive branch to President Trump: Pelosi included many of the administration’s own ideas in her document, in apparent hopes of gaining his support.
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Why not cap physician salaries? They account for 20% of healthcare costs versus just 10% for drugs.