Remarks: Donald Trump Discusses Healthcare Affordability in the Oval Office - August 31, 2026
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Remarks: Donald Trump Discusses Healthcare Affordability in the Oval Office - August 31, 2026 — Trump Archive (trump-archive.com)
What a humdinger this one is. It's the superlative of superlatives. Let's go Don. Let's hear your non communist/socialist free market fix for health costs in the USA.
"Thank you very much. This is to me a really big day, one of the biggest ever, because this announcement is as big as it gets medically. I think it just can't get -- certainly when you talk about medical and dollars in the same sentence, it doesn't get bigger"
Biggest ever. This is gonna be big. This day is so big the setting sun has decided to stay up a bit longer.
"And I'm not even sure that other presidents tried."
Not as trying as you for sure. Come on then. Tell us.
"And that's Most Favored Nation drug pricing, biggest thing you'll hear."
Oh. I think I know where this is going...
"You know, if we would cut drugs for like one-eighth of a percent, it was like a big deal."
Ahh.
"We're cutting them at numbers that you'll hear in a second are astronomical. "
Ohh..
"Nine new pharmaceutical companies are committing to deliver their lowest drug prices for American patients; they're largely standing behind me."
It would be a bit rude of them to stand in front of you. Go on..
" It's a group of very interesting names. We'll have to talk about that later."
I will mark it in my diary. Two weeks.
"Great people. For decades, Americans paid the highest drug prices anywhere in the world by far, it wasn't even close. We were ripped off by the pharmaceutical companies, and we were ripped off more than anything by other countries throughout the world that we never had a president that wanted to fight for us."
You mean the folk standing behind you ? And other countries ripped you off ? How does other Presidents tag onto that in your sentence. Oh never mind.
"But under the Most Favored Nation agreement that I negotiated at great length and at great -- really lost some friends over it, some very good friends."
YOU DONE IT... take note of that dear reader. And yeah, not all doners can be winners eh.
"It wasn't easy but under that Most Favored Nation agreement, we now pay the lowest price paid by other countries anywhere in the world. So, we went from the highest price for pharmaceuticals, for drugs to the lowest."
Jings. How much are we talking here ?
"We've slashed the cost of dozens of commonly used medications and ultimately everything, all drugs, by price differences of 400, 500 and even 600 percent."
Huh ? So these drug companies are now paying the patient to take the drugs ?
"Drug prices have gone down and will go down 50, 60, 70, 80 percent. "
But you just said ..... of never mind.
"This has a tremendous impact on health care because, as you know, pharmaceuticals, medicine is such a big part of health."
OK. And how does this work ?
"In total, these agreements are projected to save Americans more than $600 billion over a very short period of time. Think of that, $600 billion."
Short period of time ? That will be 2 weeks then. So come on, tell us how this will be done.
"For example, we have slashed the cost of the weight loss drugs like Ozempic by more than $1,800 per year. IVF patients are seeing savings on fertility drugs of more than $6,000 per birth. "
Tell us... come on...
"These savings are available to all Americans at TrumpRx.gov"
Ahh right. And the sun stayed up for this, and made the day longer. Right you are.
"It's the largest drug discounts, the largest price reductions in the history of medicine. I would say that's pretty big."
Sure thing Don. And I bet you tell Melania you have a 12 inch dick. She does have a tape measure you know.
"Nobody can believe some of the medicines that are taking place, some of the diseases that are disastrous, that lead to death, where the people actually walk away in a week and two weeks or they're completely healed."
Erm...... ok.. I thought that is what your mega Churches were for. The poor people can go to Evangelical revival tents ?
Anyway... I checked to the end, and no mention was made of Don Jr and his drug website. I bet his makes more money than yours Mr President.