A report on WCYB in Virginia and other television stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting quoted
Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD, senior associate dean for health policy at the
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and former president of the American Medical Association, who questioned President Trump’s executive order to force pharmaceutical companies to cut prices the government pays for some Medicare drugs. “This is an election-year gambit to fulfill earlier campaign promises and force drug companies to lower prices voluntarily,” said Nielsen, also a clinical professor of
medicine. “This executive order would accomplish what the House of Representatives passed in December, but which the president threatened to veto. So, this is a campaign ploy, not a commitment.”