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Trump launches TrumpRx website to offer discounted prescription drugs.
Summary
President Trump unveiled TrumpRx.gov, a site the administration says will let consumers buy select medicines directly at reduced prices; officials say more than 40 drugs, including some weight-loss and fertility treatments, will be listed.
Content
President Donald Trump on Thursday launched a new website, TrumpRx.gov, intended to let consumers purchase certain prescription medicines directly at discounted rates. He introduced the site at a White House event alongside Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz and government design chief Joe Gebbia. The administration framed the platform as part of a broader effort to address concerns about affordability and said it has negotiated agreements with many large drugmakers. The initiative builds on work first announced in September and on companies' emerging direct-sales platforms.
Key details:
- The administration says the site will list more than 40 medicines and will direct users to drugmakers' own platforms where the products can be bought at reduced rates.
- President Trump said weight-loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Wegovy would be offered to consumers for $199, and he said the common IVF drug Gonal‑F would see a large price cut, citing agreements with manufacturers.
- Officials and companies described the approach as a way to bypass pharmacy benefit managers, the intermediaries that influence coverage and pricing in insurance systems.
- The administration said it negotiated agreements with more than a dozen major pharmaceutical firms, including Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Pfizer, sometimes linked to concessions on threatened tariffs.
- Cigna Group's Evernorth said it will dispense certain fertility treatments from Merck KGaA's U.S. arm and that access to TrumpRx was part of a settlement with antitrust regulators, pending regulatory changes.
Summary:
The administration presents TrumpRx as a direct-sales channel intended to make select medicines available to consumers at lower cash prices and identifies dozens of drugs for the platform. Undetermined at this time.
