Buy medicine without money and get money? Trump mentions drug price "1,500% reduction"
2025-08-25 20:15:45
On August 26th, dozens of days after Trump sent a letter instructing top drugmakers to adopt a "most-favored-nation" pricing model for prescription drugs in the United States, he told reporters today that he has cut the cost of drug prices by as much as 1,400% to 1,500%. However, < b > Trump's exaggerated claim does not hold at all at the mathematical level . < b > In theory, if the price of drugs is reduced by more than 100%, it means that people will be paid when they buy drugs. Although the Trump administration has indeed taken some measures to reduce the price of prescription drugs, experts say there is currently no sign of such a huge drop in drug prices. Geoffrey Joyce, director of health policy at the Schaeffer Center at the University of Southern California, said: "Trump's claim is" completely fictional. "
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