HealthLeaders Media May 11, 2018
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The two-phase blueprint includes actions Trump ‘may direct HHS to take immediately’ and other items under consideration for the future.

White House officials unveiled on Friday the broad contours of a plan to counteract rising prescription drug prices.

The 44-page document, titled “American Patients First,” includes a three-page outline of the Trump administration’s two-phase blueprint.

The first phase involves actions the president “may direct HHS to take immediately,” and the second involves additional items under active HHS consideration, for which the department is soliciting feedback, the document states.

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Those two phases are reflected in each of the four key strategies the plan proposes to undertake: improved...

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