Nobel-Winning Doctors' Group Denounces Trump Pharma Plan

Caroline Orr

May 12, 2018 5:17 am

The international medical humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) slammed Trump’s speech on prescription drug prices Friday, using the White House’s own words to savage the sham proposal.

In a statement, MSF said Trump’s proposed plan to address prescription drug costs “fails to address the root problem” of rising prices and could make medicine unaffordable for the world’s most vulnerable populations while still not reducing costs in the U.S.

The group also hit back at Trump’s suggestion that drug prices in the U.S. are high because other countries aren’t paying their fair share — a suggestion that mirrors Trump’s misguided statements about NATO members.

“Other countries aren’t ‘free-riding,’ and lifesaving medicines aren’t more expensive here because they cost less elsewhere,” MSF said.

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