So what if Trump is serious about 'most favored nation'?

He made it sound so easy. Last week, President Trump told reporters that his White House is “working on a favored nations law where we pay whatever the lowest nation’s price is,” something he promised to take care of through an executive order.

But as STAT’s Nicholas Florko reports, Trump’s seemingly offhand remark put a simplistic spin on an infinitely complex issue, and it’s leaving experts with quite a few more questions than answers.

Among them is whether that’s even possible via executive order. Another is whether Trump knows what he’s talking about. And, assuming the answers to those questions, there’s still the possibility that such a policy would “blow up everything that is in drug pricing today,” as Gerard Anderson, a professor at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, put it.

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