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President Donald Trump makes big promises to reduce prescription drug costs, but his administration is gravitating to relatively modest steps such as letting Medicare patients share in manufacturer rebates.Those ideas would represent tangible change and they have a realistic chance of being enacted. But it s not like calling for M
stanley flasche edicare to negotiate drug prices.Skeptics say the overall approach is underwhelming, and Trump risks being seen as an ally of the powerful pharmaceutical in
stanley cup dustry, not its disrupter. The White House Council of Economic Advisers has released a 30-page strategy for reducing drug costs, and it calls current policies neither wise nor just. The plan, outlined before Trump releases his new budget proposal Monday, focuses mainly on Medicare and Medicaid changes, along with ideas for speeding drug approvals and fostering competition. Despite promises to drastically lower prices the mix of proposed changes does not appear likely to do so, even though there are some constructive proposals, said John Rother, CEO of the National Coalition on Health Care, an advocacy group whose members include consumer organizations, medical societies, hospitals and insurers. Polls show the high cost of drugs is a top concern of Americans, regardless of political leanings. In his State of the Union speech, Trump seemed to foreshadow major change, saying fixing the injustice of high drug prices is a top p
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xxxxxxIn the 1976 movie, All the President s Men, actor Hal Holbrooke played Deep Throat. In real life, his or her identity is Washington s long-running deep dark secret, notes CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Bill Plante. Yet, the speculation never stops, Plante observes. The latest comes from Nixon White House Counsel John Dean, who writes in the Los Angeles Times that Deep Throat is seriously ill.One of the two journalists who broke th
stanley fr e Watergate story using Deep Throat as their source has always said he d unlock the mystery, once the source who revealed what really went down in the Watergate scandal is dead. Bob Woodward wouldn t talk on camera, but told Plante that, despite the current rumors, there s no reason to believe Deep Throat s demise is imminent. Woodward and Carl Bernstein, then young reporters at The Washington Post who met their mysterious informant in the recesses of a parking garage, have carefully shielded his identity.The mystery has inspired literally dozens of theories. Some just mildly outrageous.For instance: the first Preside
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