Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his boss, President Donald Trump, of giving him anxiety following countless late night phone calls.
During a Tuesday Oval Office press conference Kennedy joked that Trump “harangued” and “harassed” him with midnight phone calls trying to get a deal done with Pfizer to establish a new website to allow Americans to purchase discounted prescription drugs.
“I was getting calls at 11:30, 12:00 at night,” Kennedy said.
He said that Trump would call him to ask him, ”‘Hello, are you asleep? You got to get MFN done.’”
“MFN” refers to the idea that Pfizer will sell drugs to Americans at “Most Favored Nation” pricing, the same price it uses in other developed nations with government-subsidized healthcare.
Kennedy said he told Dr