Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of center for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. Thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily, we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american seniors billions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen, they call them, from ripping off patients high Prescription Drug prices. Currently, there are high discounts in the price of prescription medicines, including rebates to Medicare Part d plans last year alone. Yet often, middlemen stop those discounts from going to the patients, which is what were interested in. No
So today, i have to tell you its a great honor for me to announce that my administration is issuing two groundbreaking rules to very dramatically lower the price of Prescription Drugs for the American People, especially for our cherished seniors. Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of center for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. Thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily, we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american seniors billions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen, they call them, from ripping off patients high Prescription Drug pri
Effective in preventing the disease. Pres. Trump thank you very much. This is a very big announcement, the biggest ever concerning drugs and drug pricing. So today i have to tell you its a great honor for me to announce that my administration is issuing two groundbreaking rules to very dramatically lower the price of prescription drugs for the American People, especially for our cherished seniors. Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of centers for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american s
Welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to house rules, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webx. Some members are appearing in person. Let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the attending physician, all individuals attending the hearing in person must wear a face mask unless you are speaking. Members not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for these members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking in what is known as webx as active speaker view. The timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with webx by now, but let me remind you of a few points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing, whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webx set to active speak
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