Meidas Health, Episode 6: Biden’s Medicare Reformer on Why Trump’s Health Plan Is Smoke and Mirrors

The MeidasTouch Podcast

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Politics, News

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Meidas Health is on a roll! Continuing its series of incisive interviews with the nation’s top healthcare leaders, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure — head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Biden — joins host Dr. Vin Gupta for a hard-hitting discussion on prescription drug pricing in the United States. In light of President Trump’s executive order yesterday — which was light on specifics — what’s actually having an impact on lowering costs for patients nationwide? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	Hi again, Midas Mighty. It's great to be with you for episode six and we have quite the guests for episode six, especially given the times.
1:08.7	We have former head of CMS, the Center for Medicare and
1:12.5	Medicaid Services, Bakeda Brooks, LeShore. I am so excited that she's here, especially since
1:19.5	it's, as we talked about in the past, the purpose of this podcast is the profile and platform,
1:26.1	the nation's best health care leaders that you can hear
1:29.6	directly from them on issues that matter, especially issues that are dominating the new cycle.
1:34.8	So without further ado, I'm going to bring Chiquita on to talk about all things, drug pricing,
1:40.8	and just all the seemingly endless new cycle. But Chiquita, thanks for being here.
1:45.8	Thank you for having me.
1:48.0	Chiquita, I wanted to dive right in. And, you know, it wasn't lost on any of our listeners,
1:54.0	the big announcement yesterday from the Trump administration on drug pricing.
1:58.8	And yet, as you and I were talking about,
2:01.2	there's a difference between pursuing these,
2:05.4	what I think objectives that we all agree on,
2:07.3	lowering drug costs in the U.S.
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