{"id":1002795,"date":"2018-10-31T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002795"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:05","slug":"pfizer-to-raise-prices-after-trump-falsely-claimed-credit-for-lowering-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/pfizer-to-raise-prices-after-trump-falsely-claimed-credit-for-lowering-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer To Raise Prices After Trump Falsely Claimed Credit For Lowering Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump has failed to lower drug prices or stand up to the pharmaceutical industry. The latest evidence is that Pfizer now says they plan to continue raising prices next year, after Trump falsely claimed credit for making them lower costs.<\/p>\n

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THEN: Trump falsely claimed credit for Pfizer \u201clowering\u201d drug prices.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg\u2019s Nielsen<\/a>: \u201cTrump Said He Got Pfizer to Roll Back Prices. Not Really.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Axios<\/a>: \u201cPfizer is only deferring those price hikes, not canceling them. And it\u2019s taking its products back to what they cost in June \u2014 a time when Trump was very much of the belief that the prices were too high.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NOW: Pfizer says they plan to go back to business as usual with price hikes next year.<\/p>\n

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Axios<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration hailed Pfizer’s move this summer as a \u2018major win for American patients.\u2019 But the company’s decision to return to the status quo shows both sides were looking to score political points, and patients won’t see meaningful changes to their drug prices in the near term.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump has failed to lower drug prices or stand up to the pharmaceutical industry. The latest evidence is that Pfizer now says they plan to continue raising prices next year, after Trump falsely claimed credit for making them lower costs.   THEN: Trump falsely claimed credit for Pfizer \u201clowering\u201d drug prices.   Bloomberg\u2019s Nielsen: \u201cTrump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPfizer To Raise Prices After Trump Falsely Claimed Credit For Lowering Them - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/pfizer-to-raise-prices-after-trump-falsely-claimed-credit-for-lowering-them\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-31T20:14:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:15:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/pfizer-to-raise-prices-after-trump-falsely-claimed-credit-for-lowering-them\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/pfizer-to-raise-prices-after-trump-falsely-claimed-credit-for-lowering-them\/\",\"name\":\"Pfizer To Raise Prices After Trump Falsely Claimed Credit For Lowering Them - 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