The Trump administration’s website aimed at giving Americans major discounts on drug prices launched on Feb. 5.
TrumpRx, a direct-to-consumer website, uses what’s called most-favored-nation drug pricing, which will align drug costs for select medications to the lowest price in developed nations.
But the prescription drug costs aren’t automatically applied to all medications. Americans must go through a few steps on their own to gain access to the deals.
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Welcome back. I'm Tiffany Meyer. The Trump administration announced the launch of a new website offering popular prescription drugs with most favored nation prices.
NTD correspondent Jason Blair brings us more on the program's goals and how consumers can use it.
Starting tonight,
dozens of the most commonly used prescription drugs will be available at dramatic discounts. On Thursday night,
President Trump announced the launch of TrumpRx.gov.
The website says it lists discounted drug prices from manufacturers that have agreed to most favored nation pricing.
The Trump administration describes most favored nation pricing as getting prescription drug prices in America at
comparable and or better prices than they are in other countries like Canada, Germany, and France.
We're gonna make the prices fair and that's called most favored nation pricing. President Trump issued an executive order in May to work on
establishing this for Americans. TrumpRx currently has 43 drugs available and boasts savings ranging from
50 to 93 percent. These include popular weight loss drugs, fertility treatments, and others for conditions like
diabetes and asthma. The website says there are two ways to get the listed price.
One is if the drug has a coupon on its web page.
You can print or download the coupon and bring it to your pharmacy to get the listed price.
The other is if the drug doesn't have a coupon,
there will be a link on the drug's web page to buy the drug at the manufacturer's website.
The prices are for out-of-pocket buyers.
However, the site says if you have insurance, check your copay first.
It may be even lower. The copays and deductibles are going up each year in health care.
So what you're actually seeing is a phenomenon in the United States where the cash price is below the copay.
McCary says that the number of drugs on the site will increase and the site aims to solve the quote
amount of money games that go on with health care's middlemen. Pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs,
which is an arm of the insurance companies, have many shell games to
skim money off the top. And the Department of Health and Human Services announced a radically revised food pyramid in
January. The new dietary recommendations have increased protein portions by 50 to 100 percent as
well as moving healthy fats from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.
The new guidelines get an endorsement from retired boxing legend Mike Tyson in a new Super Bowl ad.
Something has to be done about processed food in this country.
Tyson writes, I'm not fighting for a belt. I'm fighting for our health.
Processed foods are killing us. We have been lied to and we need to eat real food again.
Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News.
