CNBC January 26, 2025
Annika Kim Constantino

Key Points

– Pharmaceutical companies appear to be cautiously optimistic that brighter days are ahead under a Trump administration, following years of Joe Biden’s hardline stance on the industry.

– Drugmakers hope to see efforts that focus more on cracking down on pharmacy benefit managers while promoting drug innovation and patient access to treatments.

– Those companies are particularly eager to see changes to a provision of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers.

Pharmaceutical companies appear to be hopeful about their growth under a Trump administration, after former President Joe Biden took a hardline stance on the industry for the last four years.

Like his predecessor, President Donald Trump will make...

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