What did Donald Trump claim about health care on 28 Jul 2020?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
last year, drug prices came down. First time in 51 years that they came down.
Prescription drug prices had come down before within the previous 51 years. The BLS consumer price index for prescription drugs fell from December 1971 to December 1972, about 47 years before 2019.
The Consumer Price Index for prescription drugs was 47.6 in December 1971 and 47.1 in December 1972, and was lower in May through December 1972 than in the same months of 1971 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI-U series CUUR0000SEMF01).
Claim vs. the record · Health care
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- White House coronavirus press briefing.
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