How effective will TrumpRX be at lowering prescription drug prices for Americans?
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | A new website, Trump RX, that the president says will help Americans buy lower-priced |
| 0:06.1 | prescription drugs, is now online. |
| 0:08.8 | The site lists drugs at reduced rates with coupon codes to be used at participating pharmacies |
| 0:13.8 | or directly through manufacturers' websites. |
| 0:17.1 | It's part of his pledge to lower drug prices in the U.S. where consumers tend to pay much more |
| 0:22.6 | than their European peers. Stephanie Sy has more. |
| 0:27.5 | Omna, Trump's RX currently has about 40 brand name medications on offer from five companies, |
| 0:34.7 | including popular weight loss and infertility treatments. |
| 0:38.5 | At an event yesterday, the president called it one of the most transformative health |
| 0:42.3 | care initiatives of all time. |
| 0:45.5 | This launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, |
| 0:51.5 | many times. |
| 0:52.5 | And it's not even close. |
| 0:53.5 | You're going to see numbers that you're not going to |
| 0:55.6 | believe. But health policy experts cautioned the impact would likely be muted, especially for the |
| 1:03.1 | 85 percent of Americans who have prescription drug coverage. With more, we're joined now by |
| 1:09.0 | Dan Diamond, a reporter for the Washington Post, |
| 1:11.6 | who focuses on policy and public health. Dan, it's good to see you. So talk about how Trump |
| 1:17.6 | RX works in practice. It's not a website that sells drugs direct to consumer, but it's more for |
| 1:23.3 | information, right? Yeah, it's a government program, a government website intended to help |
| 1:29.4 | Americans get discounted prescription drugs. So you can be directed to a manufacturer's website. |
| 1:35.5 | You can print out a coupon in some cases, maybe even call up a pharmacy directly and get the |
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