Can Trump use the bully pulpit to lower drug prices? Don’t bet on it

WASHINGTON — Is there a Trump effect on drug prices?

President Trump has not yet made his much-ballyhooed speech on drug prices, and a rumored executive order never came to pass. And yet in Washington there are already suggestions among some administration officials that the political climate created by the president — to say nothing of his comments about drug makers “getting away with murder” — has helped keep prices in check.