Trump to sign executive order he says
will slash drug prices by up to 80%
Fox News,
by
Greg Wehner
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/11/2025 9:15:16 PM
President Donald Trump announced he plans to sign an executive order on Monday that will reduce the cost of prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals "almost immediately, by 30% to 80%."
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social Sunday.
"For many years the World has wondered why Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the United States States of America were SO MUCH HIGHER IN PRICE THAN THEY WERE IN ANY OTHER NATION, SOMETIMES BEING FIVE TO TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE SAME DRUG, MANUFACTURED IN THE EXACT SAME LABORATORY OR PLANT, BY THE SAME COMPANY???" Trump wrote. "It was always difficult
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
hershey 5/11/2025 9:17:36 PM (No. 1948493)
They were probably jacking up the prices for us to pay for their product development and testing....and letting the rest of the world off the hook...
The price of my wife's meds for diabetes would knock you off your feet...and cancer meds up in the multiple bucks for ONE pill...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 5/11/2025 9:20:32 PM (No. 1948497)
In effect, price controls. Will this create shortages?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 5/11/2025 9:29:09 PM (No. 1948498)
The history of price controls says "yes."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/11/2025 9:50:56 PM (No. 1948503)
We are the only nation without price controls and many other countries markedly limit what newer drugs are even available. Not sure this move of Trump's is constitutional but this is one physician tired of the US having paid for the whole damn world's drug developments.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/11/2025 9:55:43 PM (No. 1948504)
I'd also like to see them ALL manufactured in the USA again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
minuteman 5/11/2025 10:02:07 PM (No. 1948505)
I don’t see it as price control. The company still sets the price but now we insist on getting the best price and not the sucker price.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OhioNick 5/11/2025 10:35:05 PM (No. 1948510)
I despise the mainstream medicine / pharmaceutical industrial complex. They don't want cures because there's no money in that. On the other hand, there's tons of profit in prescribing expensive drugs, hospital admissions and long-term care. That's exactly why I became a self-taught expert in alternative medicine. I can cure a number of things that mainstream medicine doesn't want to cure. Over the years, I've had six or seven doctors yell at me because I dared to question or disagree with them.
And for the record, my elderly father is in his 90s and he's healthy as a horse because of all of the supplements I give him. Additionally, his mind is much sharper now than it was ten years ago.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kono 5/11/2025 10:56:02 PM (No. 1948511)
Up to 80% off just means not more than 80% price cut.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/11/2025 11:01:01 PM (No. 1948513)
I don't see how this is going to work. Maybe Trump is just getting the attention of the drug companies to negotiate some reductions. I don't think the President can set drug prices, not without an FDR declaration of a national emergency. Medicare sets the amounts it will pay, but if they set prices too low, the distributors will stop accepting Medicare. Then, other countries do not have the per capita incomes of the USA, so they are never going to pay the prices paid in the USA. I'm told the drug companies are the most powerful lobby in DC. The lawsuits would drag on for years. We will see.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 5/11/2025 11:21:52 PM (No. 1948515)
Bingo, #1 and #7!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/12/2025 12:17:47 AM (No. 1948520)
Congress will never codify this. Maybe just start by blocking Pharma advertisements.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
billa57 5/12/2025 5:49:38 AM (No. 1948543)
My Mother had emphysema and was on very expensive drugs. About $1500 a month. Those same drugs in Canada cost only about $300. The drug companies are making sick US citizens subsidize Canadian citizens' big time in order to sell more. That has to stop.
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#7 My daughter was being pushed to take statins for cholesterol. She said, give me 3 months to get on "red rice plus" like my mom and reteat. When she came back and tested in range, the doctor was very annoyed with her! They do not want any cure that does not require their prescription pad.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/12/2025 7:43:45 AM (No. 1948601)
I don't know what to think other than the price of drugs is obscenely high. I had to pay over 700 dollars for a small bottle of eyedrops for my glaucoma.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Msquared112 5/12/2025 8:09:18 AM (No. 1948613)
#2, anything is better than these astronomical prices. I pay upwards of $170 for 30 Synthroid. The generic is cheaper but my doc doesn't trust it and neither do I. People cannot afford life-saving drugs.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mamateach 5/12/2025 8:42:59 AM (No. 1948636)
Have been ordering a $600 (price with insurance) a month bottle of meds from a Canadian broker. THREE months cost $91 and change- including shipping!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/12/2025 9:16:43 AM (No. 1948649)
The same pill should cost the same price in every country.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/12/2025 9:25:44 AM (No. 1948656)
It always goes back to...Americans are rich...so let them pay the price....WE are the economic answer for the globalists....the world oligarchs have been robbing US blind for 35 years.....all with the wink and a smile from Washington DC elites....democrats and rinos....no wonder they are in a panic...nothing is safe for them...they are losing their easy money status ...and losing their government jobs....it's a double whammy for them...no wonder they are in therapy....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2025 10:50:37 AM (No. 1948711)
Hmmm. Will this be a good thing or kill drug research funding?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/12/2025 10:59:46 AM (No. 1948724)
Poster #7 reminds me of something I thought I knew; not so sure any more. I had excellent health insurance through my workplace for 25 years. After that benefit ran out 24 months after retirement, I had to furnish my own meds. Those dollars do not go nearly as far as they used to. Medicare sux, fully and always. The only cheap med I get is the five dollars for 3-mos of glucotrol (diabeic med). I'll try to remember to count all the blessings. Visions of Wuhan still dance in my head. Trust, but verify verify verify.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/12/2025 12:28:54 PM (No. 1948766)
Government price controls are an abomination - - even when President Trump uses them.
Let's hope Congress ignores this.
Yech!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Pinkpanther 5/12/2025 1:17:54 PM (No. 1948787)
I can’t wait, insulin is obscenely high and type I diabetics need it to live. We’re paying $1000 for insulin per Type I kid (4 of them) but we can buy the same insulin for $10 a vial in Mexico. We live in Texas and periodically make a run right across the border for insulin and antibiotics.
I don’t want to hear MuH reSeARcH and PRoDuCT dEVeLoPMenT over our criminally high prices. Let the rest of the world contribute to that because they’re reaping all the benefits of Americans footing the bill. Maybe this will stop the awful advertising on tv.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/12/2025 2:00:15 PM (No. 1948814)
This subsidizing by US citizens of worldwide non-US drug prices MUST stop. All the socialist countries boast about how their healthcare is "free" and how much better their systems are. Well let's see how much they will continue to think that when they have to pay exactly what US taxpayers have to pay for their pharmaceuticals.
God and Trump work in wondrous ways...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mariboo72 5/12/2025 2:10:53 PM (No. 1948820)
My husband's Eliquis is insane. It's supposedly going to come down in price next year.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
kbcama 5/12/2025 9:57:47 PM (No. 1948999)
My husband died almost 9 years ago. He was diabetic and had lung problems. We had good insurance and for the most part everything (hospital stays, doctor bills) was paid for except drugs. We did have a separate drug policy but still were out between $1500 to nearly $3,000 each month! I retired early to take care of him. He was in the early stages of dementia. When he died we'd spent all of his 401k and most of mine. I don't regret that at all - our retirement travel plans mean nothing to me without him. But I often wondered what people did who were in between the very poor who seemed to get drugs for nearly free and the ones who'd put money away for retirement and used that money. I am glad something is being done for high drug prices.
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