U.S. Negotiates Lower Medicaid Prices for 15 Drugs
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:43.2 | The U.S. government has negotiated lower prices in the federal Medicare program for 15 high-selling medicines, including the popular weight loss drug, OZempic, as part of a widening |
| 0:48.8 | effort to rein in drug costs. The list also includes some big sellers like GSK's asthma drug trilogy, Pfizer's breast |
| 0:56.6 | cancer treatment, iBrents, and Merck's diabetes drug, Janumet. The price cuts will save Medicare |
| 1:02.6 | an estimated $12 billion in prescription drug spending. That's good news for some patients |
| 1:08.0 | who could see lower co-pays and other out-of-pocket costs imposed |
| 1:12.1 | by their particular plan. The White House is defending special envoy Steve Wittkoff over a reportedly |
| 1:18.2 | leaked conversation in which he told a Russian official that praising President Trump would |
| 1:23.8 | help smooth over a call with President Vladimir Putin regarding the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:29.2 | Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Witkoff's negotiating is a standard thing |
| 1:33.8 | and said the war in Ukraine was heading in one direction. |
| 1:37.7 | In a social media post, Trump said he has directed Witkoff to meet with Putin in Moscow, |
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