It’s to Bypass the ‘Middleman of Healthcare:’ Dr. Makary on Trump Launching Low-Cost Prescription Drugs Website

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BARTIROMO: “Yes use of the Trump rx is a major step to making prescription medicine affordable”

MAKARY: “That’s right. This not the administration selling drugs this summer alleging come this a civil place but we have curated where people can go to find the price of drugs will connect them directly to the direct cell sites, bypassing the middleman of healthcare and remember little bit of healthcare premiums and all of the other parties involved, and I think drugs significantly and are you going to be able to go direct this is not just a theoretical, we are talking about Medicaid getting most favored nation status pricing for all prescription drugs this would have a significant impact in cutting the waste the Medicaid program which will commitment of this administration are talking about real drugs here attorney arthritis drug and is going to be decreased by 40 percent and there’s no osteoporosis postmenopausal medication made by Pfizer and the team cms and the administration scared and 85 talking about real lower drug prices were not one or 2 percent, reductions talking about the previous administration trying to negotiate pennies a small subset of drugs were talking about it and 80 percent reduction of think the average reduction is 80 - 85 percent.”