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.

President Donald Trump on Monday revived a plan to tie prescription drug prices in the U.S. to what other nations pay for medicines. The executive order, which was first reported by POLITICO, still leaves many questions about how the administration will implement a so-called “most-favored nation” policy.

President Trump is taking aim at U.S. drug prices with an executive order geared toward forcing drug companies to match the lower prices paid in other developed countries, as NPR's Sydney Lupkin reports.