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   From: bks@panix.com   
      
   > | Americans Are More Worried About Health Care Costs Than Gas   
   > | or Groceries   
      
    | ...   
    | In mid-December, President Donald Trump -- fresh off a deal   
    | that saw nine more major pharmaceutical companies promise   
    | to lower drug prices -- said he'd pressure health insurers   
    | to do the same.   
    |   
    | "I want to meet with them, and I want to say, 'I want you   
    | to cut your rates way down, way, way down,'" Trump said.   
    | "And maybe if they do that, we'll be able to not cut them   
    | out."   
    |   
    | More than a month later, no meeting has taken place and the   
    | president has not publicly demanded they lower premiums, as   
    | he did five times between mid-December and early January.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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