President Trump Signs Bills Banning Pharmacy ‘Gag Clauses’

“President Trump has signed two bills into law to block insurers from enforcing ‘gag clauses’ that forbid pharmacies from telling customers about how they can pay less for drugs,” Kimberly Leonard reports in the Washington Examiner. “The Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act and the Know the Lowest Price Act are intended to help patients find out whether a prescription would cost less if they were to pay for it out of pocket rather than through their health plans.”

Americans deserve to know the lowest prices available at their pharmacies—“and now that is what they are getting,” President Trump said.

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“The president has officially ordered federal assistance for the state of Georgia post-Tropical Storm Michael,” WRDW of Atlanta reports. President Trump approved an emergency declaration for Georgia that gives FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security wider latitude and access to resources to assist in local recovery efforts. The President signed a similar order for Florida earlier this week.

“America’s manufacturing and defense industrial base – vital to ensuring our national security – is under significant threat at a time when the military capabilities of China, Russia, and our other strategic competitors are growing,” White House Director of Trade and Industrial Policy Peter Navarro writes in Fox News. “Fortunately, President Trump has long recognized that to be strong and secure our nation must be able to rely on U.S. companies to manufacture products needed for our national defense.”

In TMA News, Steve Cortes writes that the newly negotiated United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade is a win for American workers. “For years, Donald Trump railed against the failed politicians whose bad trade deals stole jobs from American workers. Now the President is parlaying that tough talk into real action.”

In the Washington Examiner, health policy expert Sally Pipes writes that President Trump’s assessment of Democrats’ single-payer proposal is spot on. “According to him, if Democrats succeed in implementing their single-payer proposal, ‘costs will spiral out of control. Taxes will skyrocket. And Democrats will seek to slash budgets for seniors' Medicare, Social Security and Defense,’” Pipes says. “He’s absolutely right.”