The order Trump is promising will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to tie what Medicare pays for medications administrated in a doctor’s office to the lowest price paid by other countries.

The U.S. pays about three times more than other nations for drugs, and Trump's wide-reaching executive order directs pharmaceutical companies to charge similar prices in the U.S. and Europe. The order says its health department will establish a mechanism for patients to buy more drugs directly from manufacturers.