{"id":2438469,"date":"2025-05-23T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drug-prices-to-drop-like-a-rock-after-new-executive-order-president-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:13:34","slug":"drug-prices-to-drop-like-a-rock-after-new-executive-order-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drug-prices-to-drop-like-a-rock-after-new-executive-order-president-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Prices to &#8216;Drop Like a Rock&#8217; After New Executive Order: President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdrug-prices-to-drop-like-a-rock-after-new-executive-order-president-donald-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2438469&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump administration has initiated a plan aimed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-kyrsten-sinema-gets-on-board-for-democratic-spending-bill\/\" title=\"Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Gets On Board For Democratic Spending Bill\">reducing prescription drug costs<\/a> for Americans through a policy known as &#8220;most-favored-nation&#8221; pricing. This approach will set U.S. drug prices at the lowest levels paid by other economically advanced countries, as outlined by President Trump, who promises important savings-potentially up to 89%. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is tasked wiht implementing this plan, emphasizing that Americans have been unfairly burdened by high drug prices while other countries benefit from lower costs for the same medications. The initiative seeks to terminate what Trump describes as &#8220;global freeloading,&#8221; where U.S. consumers pay inflated prices. The administration has issued a warning to pharmaceutical companies to comply with these pricing adjustments or face further action. Trump&#8217;s executive order reinforces the need to align American drug prices with those in comparable nations to combat this perceived inequity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump administration has put in motion its plan to secure lower prescription drug costs for Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, the Trump administration took its first steps to implement what&rsquo;s called &ldquo;most-favored-nation&rdquo; pricing. Under the plan, drug prices would fall to the lowest price paid by nations in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which includes most nations with strong economies, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/us-health-authorities-set-most-favored-nation-pricing-targets-2025-05-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;You can have, within a period of weeks, you can have drug costs that drop like a rock,&rdquo; President Donald Trump said Thursday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5314981-trump-executive-order-prescription-drug-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump said that Americans have borne an unfair burden of high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-says-americans-wont-treated-like-suckers-big-pharma-longer-signs-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prescription<\/a> prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;We are going to now get a reduction in drug costs of up to 89 percent in some cases, but 50 percent would be a low, a bad number,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be massive numbers. It&rsquo;s going to be incredible for Medicaid, incredible for all forms of health care. Medicare is going to be &mdash; it&rsquo;s going to have a huge impact, so big that nobody can calculate it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump has tasked Health and Human Services Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-trump-announces-earth-shaking-change-prescription-drug-prices-every-single-american-one-consequential-executive-orders-countrys-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert F. Kenedy Jr<\/a>. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator <span data-nid=\"27054\">Dr. Mehmet Oz with making the plan work, and on Thursday gave then a Trump-style speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;&ldquo;OK, so you as a group, I have great confidence. And if you don&rsquo;t do it, I am firing every single one. Good luck, guys,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/press-room\/cms-mfn-lower-us-drug-prices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>, Kennedy voiced confidence that the plan will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-trump-administration-readies-executive-order-institute-sweeping-cut-drug-prices-medicare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;For too long, Americans have been forced to pay exorbitant prices for the same drugs that are sold overseas for far less,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That ends today. We expect pharmaceutical manufacturers to fulfill their commitment to lower prices for American patients, or we will take action to ensure they do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this month, Trump issued an executive order lower prescription prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;In case after case, our <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >citizens pay massively higher prices<\/a> than other nations pay for the same exact pill, from the same factory, effectively subsidizing socialism abroad with skyrocketing prices at home,&rdquo; Trump said in a fact sheet posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/05\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-actions-to-put-american-patients-first-by-lowering-drug-prices-and-stopping-foreign-free-riding-on-american-pharmaceutical-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;So we would spend tremendous amounts of money in order to provide inexpensive drugs to another country. And when I say the price is different, you can see some examples where the price is beyond anything &mdash; four times, five times different.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the order posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/05\/delivering-most-favored-nation-prescription-drug-pricing-to-american-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House website<\/a>, the Trump administration will develop &ldquo;most<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-americans-wont-be-treated-like-suckers-by-big-pharma-any-longer-as-he-signs-executive-order\/\" title=\"Trump Says ... Won&#039;t Be Treated Like &#039;Suckers&#039; by Big Pharma Any Longer as He Signs Executive ...\">-favored-nation price targets &#038;hellip<\/a>; to bring prices for American patients in line with comparably developed nations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The order said, it ends &ldquo;global freeloading&rdquo; and warns drug companies that &ldquo;should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-seeks-to-codify-trumps-executive-order-to-reduce-drug-prices-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Democrat seeks to codify Trump\u2019s executive ... to reduce ... - Washington Examiner\">drug manufacturers fail<\/a> to offer American consumers the most<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-land-awkwardly-on-the-side-of-higher-drug-price\/\" title=\"Dems Land Awkwardly On The Side Of Higher Drug ...\">-favored-nation lowest price<\/a>, my Administration will take additional aggressive action.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;The United States has less than five percent of the world&rsquo;s population and yet funds around three quarters of global pharmaceutical profits. &nbsp;This egregious imbalance is orchestrated through a purposeful scheme in which drug manufacturers deeply discount their products to access foreign markets and subsidize that decrease through enormously high prices in the United States,&rdquo; Trump wrote in the order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;This abuse of Americans&rsquo; generosity, who deserve low-cost pharmaceuticals on the same terms as other developed nations, must end.&nbsp; Americans will no longer be forced to pay almost three times more for the exact same medicines, often made in the exact same factories.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This week, it began implementing a &#8220;most-favored-nation&#8221; pricing model, which aims to lower drug prices to the lowest levels paid by countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), comprising many economically strong nations. President Trump stated that within weeks, drug costs could significantly decrease. 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