"LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: In the cabinet room today, the president, whose policies and decisions led to the murder in the streets of Minneapolis, hallucinated about phone conversations that never happened with leaders of foreign countries in which he told them that they will have to increase the price of prescription drugs in their countries so that the price of prescription drugs in the United States can come down. That formulation is obviously insane on its face."
"The price of prescription drugs in foreign countries is lower than in the United States because the governments of those countries set the price of prescription drugs. They have price controls. They use the same kind of price controls that this country used in World War II. Democrats have been trying to get that kind of price control on prescription drugs for decades in the in this country. But Republicans, very much including Donald Trump, oppose the government controlling the price of prescription drugs. And so we don't have price controls. And that's why our drugs are more expensive."
President Donald Trump, during a Cabinet meeting, recounted an implausible conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, claiming Macron agreed to raise prescription drug prices abroad so U.S. prices could fall. Cabinet members reportedly laughed during the account and no press questioning followed. The explanation contradicts how foreign drug prices are set, since many governments use price controls that keep prices lower than in the United States. The United States lacks comparable federal price controls for prescription drugs, a policy area where Republicans, including the president, have opposed government intervention. The episode prompted criticism labeling the account a hallucination.
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