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  "id": 4708451,
  "title": "Trump announces Medicaid drug pricing deals with 9 firms",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/trump-announces-medicaid-drug-pricing-deals-with-9-firms",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-31T20:02:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
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    "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6061821-trump-medicaid-drug-pricing/"
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  "summary": "The Trump administration on Monday announced new Medicaid drug pricing agreements with nine midsize biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Every drug “will be at the lowest prices available anywhere in the world,” President Trump said in the Oval Office, surrounded by company executives. Under the agreements, the companies will charge state Medicaid programs the same...",
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        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "Trump administration to announce drug pricing deals",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/trump-administration-to-announce-drug-pricing-deals",
        "published": "2026-08-31T16:13:11.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CNBC",
        "title": "Trump reportedly plans to announce new drug pricing deals with nearly a dozen drugmakers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/trump-reportedly-plans-to-announce-new-drug-pricing-deals-with-nearly",
        "published": "2026-08-31T17:20:45.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "title": "Watch live: Trump makes announcement on drug pricing",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/watch-live-trump-makes-announcement-on-drug-pricing",
        "published": "2026-08-31T17:43:25.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Endpoints News",
        "title": "Trump announces nine new MFN drug pricing deals",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/trump-announces-nine-new-mfn-drug-pricing-deals",
        "published": "2026-08-31T19:56:17.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Trump announces drug pricing deals with 9 more drugmakers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/trump-announces-drug-pricing-deals-with-9-more-drugmakers",
        "published": "2026-08-31T20:51:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour Health",
        "title": "WATCH: Trump says more pharmaceutical companies will lower drug prices",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/watch-trump-says-more-pharmaceutical-companies-will-lower-drug-prices",
        "published": "2026-08-31T21:09:56.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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