U.S. President Donald Trump signed a broad executive order on Monday directing drugmakers to lower the prices of their prescription drugs to align with what other countries pay. The order said the Trump administration will give drugmakers price targets within a month and,

"I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION'S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World," the president posted Sunday on his social media site, pledging to sign the order on Monday morning at the White House.

President Trump’s executive order to lower drug prices through cross-agency action left pharma leaders scrambling to make sense of it