Ryan downplays Trump’s attacks on drug makers

Published January 17, 2017 2:24pm ET



House Speaker Paul Ryan wants Donald Trump to ease up on targeting pharmaceutical companies, and said in a new interview that the current Medicare system works “extremely well.”

Ryan sought to play down Trump’s fiery rhetoric against the pharmaceutical industry in an interview with the news service Axios, just after Trump said in a recent Washington Post interview that the industry is not going to be “politically protected” anymore.

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