Trump Asks Congress to Codify His Drug Price Policy Into Law

President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address Tuesday to urge Congress to codify his prescription drug price initiative into law, an outcome some lawmakers see as a possibility. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) praised the cost-reduction potential of Trump’s Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing plan, saying: “That really does matter to the American people.” “Working with the president on codifying those things into law is important,” Donalds told reporters after Trump’s speech. Trump illustrated the impact of the policy, introduced last year, by introducing a guest, Catherine Rayner, during the joint session of Congress. Rayner and her husband had struggled with infertility, turning eventually to IVF treatments requiring medication priced at $4,000....