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THE PROGNOSIS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a talk about lowering the cost of prescription drugs. (Elaine Thompson/AP) President Trump and nearly every House Republican opposed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing bill when she held a vote on it last month. Now, some high-profile Democratic operatives are readying a 2020 campaign to go after vulnerable …

THE PROGNOSIS Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar listens as President Trump delivers a speech about lowering prescription drug prices. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Trump administration has run up against a legal wall in its first big effort to lower drug prices. But there’s a good chance Congress will help it climb over. Late last …

THE PROGNOSIS Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar listens as President Trump delivers a speech about lowering prescription drug prices from the White House Rose Garden in May 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) There may be a modest slowdown this year in the growth of drug prices, but it’s nowhere near the seismic shift President Trump has called for. …