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The formularies, doing rebates, doing claims, but they're negotiating all of these prices between the drug companies and the insurance companies that ultimately trickles down and ends up as the patient co-pay. there is a lot of different explanations for why drug prices are so high to begin with. these three people, these three players all blame each other for why they're so high, but a lot of experts in the health care policy field say that it is really the drugmaker, the pharmaceutical companies that are setting prices so high and that everything sort of follows after that. >> dr. natalie az...

Prices to other countries. >> they're setting prices in other countries and we're not. the drug companies frankly are getting away with murder, and we want to bring our prices down to what other countries are paying. >> reporter: but the u.s. government doesn't set drug prices. the way our system is set up, it would be nearly impossible to bring prices in line with other countries. >> our system is far more fractured. it's every company for themselves. in our country, drug companies can set any price that they want and they can raise it by any amount for the most part. consumers are at the tot...

Leader in bringing new drugs to the global marketplace, but critics say the high costs just make drugs less accessible to people who need them most. when it comes to solving this issue, it may not be an easy fix. >> there's no single bullet to fix this problem. it will be a patch work of solutions to help people gain greater access, not spend so much money and still have the medications that they need. >> okay. so president trump looking to set prices. isn't his entire administration mantra -- >> the opposite. >> deregulation, deregulation, deregulation. free markets, open markets. setting pri...

Topic under this administration and it started already. and we have a lot of recommendations that we're going to be making and you'll be hearing about them very shortly. the other thing we're doing that relates to people's lives is the prescription drug prices are out of control. the drug prices have gone through the roof. if you look at the same exact drug by the same exact company made in the same exact box and sold to some place else, sometimes it's a fraction of what we pay in this country. meaning as usual, the world is taking advantage of the united states. they're setting prices in othe...

That relates to people's lives is the prescription drug prices are out of control. they've gone through the roof and if you look at the same exact drug by the same exact company made in the same exact box and sold someplace else, sometimes it's a fraction of what we pay in this country. meaning as usual, the world has taken advantage of the united states, they are setting prices in other countries and we are not. the drug companies frankly are getting away with murder, and we want to bring our prices down to what other countries are paying. or at least close i'm at the other countries pay more...