STAT+: Faux price transparency, MAGA MA, and UnitedHealth’s other data breach

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The faux transparency of drug prices

The entire pharmaceutical industry faced a moment of reckoning in 2017, right after President Trump was elected the first time and said drug companies were “getting away with murder” over their high prices.

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