Donald Trump vs. facts on affordable care

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America has "the best medicine," Donald Trump said following his hospital stay.  But can the average American afford the best medicine — like the experimental coronavirus treatment he received?

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00:00We have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines, all developed recently.

00:05We're going to lower drug prices at a level that's never been lowered before.

00:09We have incredible drugs in the pipeline.

00:12We have the best medicines in the world.

00:19We're going to beat this coronavirus. If you look at the therapeutics,

00:23which I'm taking right now, some of them, and others are coming out soon that are looking like

00:30frankly, they're miracles. If you want to know the truth, they're miracles.

01:00I'm cutting drug prices. I'm going with favorite nations,

01:03which no president has the courage to do because you're going against big pharma.

01:07Drug prices will be coming down 80 or 90 percent.

01:30Insulin, it's going to, it was destroying families, destroying people because

01:46I'm getting it for so cheap. It's like water, you want to know the truth, so cheap.

02:00And to give to critically ill patients access to life-saving drugs, we passed a thing called,

02:21and hopefully nobody in this room will need it, but if you do, it's right to try.

02:30So

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