[U] Still "Sound and Fury"... "Signifying... [Essentially] Nothing." That's Trump's Drug Pricing "Order."

UPDATED @ 1 PM: The latest [non-] order expressly repeals the prior [non-] order, from July. This means any importation of prescription medicines from Canada is. . . officially dead. All of this means nothing positive. And it means all the goofy "maybe this" or "maybe that" cha-cha, from the July order no longer exists. PhRMA, for its part, had a week ago pointed out just how senseless, and internally contradictory all of Trump's drug price non-"orders" have been. But here is that bit, from yesterday's White House mush-mouth release (at Section 5):

". . .The Executive Order of July 24, 2020 (Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First), is revoked. . . ."

It must be completely exhausting, as a pharma-lobbyist -- to try to keep up -- as Trump piles one lie on top of another, into his now five. . . supposed executive orders, as to matters he has no real power. . . to implement. End, updated portion.

This is (again) back to our wheelhouse. . . and the "order" Trump signed overnight. . . is in fact, just a series of "demonstration projects" -- or aspirational studies, if you will -- to be experimented with. . . yup, after the election.

So -- precisely as we earlier repeatedly said, most recently in July 2020. . . his order is a nullity. Yet another false promise, from a false despot.

Y A W N.

Here's more from those capable, well-informed humans at STAT+, on it all:

. . . .The executive orders direct the HHS secretary to test the ideas before making them permanent.

It’s still unclear when the Trump administration will formally implement the new executive order. Drug industry lobbyists expect Trump to try and skip over most of the formal regulatory steps by issuing a so-called interim final rule, a rare regulatory maneuver that lets presidents skip most of the formal regulatory steps in certain emergencies. However, the drug industry has hinted it will sue if Trump tries to use that maneuver. . . .

Now you know (and we may yet add that, to the perhaps over 1,000 suits now pending against ultra vires Trump power grabs). Onward, grinning at Trump making up, out of whole cloth, an award he called the "Bay of Pigs" award, and then claiming Miami area Cuban-Americans gave it to him -- as supposed proof of his chances of winning. . . in Florida. It would all be deliciously comedic, if not uttered by the sitting president, and thus not. . . so desperately. . . sad.

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