Congress confronts drug prices

• New rules should be finalized soon requiring drugmakers to include prices in their TV ads. The industry will likely sue.
• Conservatives are uneasy about Trump’s plan to import some European price controls, but Democrats may be willing to help.

The administration needs a win.

• Trump’s legal assault on the Affordable Care Act faces long odds and a backlash from congressional Republicans.
• Medicaid work requirements — the most substantive rightward shift the administration has imposed so far on health policy — have been struck down in court.

The bottom line: There will be headwinds on drug prices, too, but the general political climate and some alliance-building on Capitol Hill could easily make it a bright spot for the White House.