Trump’s ‘favored nations’ drug discount gets buy-in from all 50 states — and will save billions for Medicaid

NY Post ^ | 9/18/26 | Steven Nelson

[Libloather]

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Friday that all 50 states along with Puerto Rico and DC have opted into his “most favored nations’’ drug-price initiative to lower prescription costs for Medicaid recipients.

The president strong-armed 26 major pharmaceutical companies into enacting the special drug pricing for federal agencies to match the rates paid in eight other high-income nations, including Canada, Germany, Japan and the UK.

“They all succumbed to the dollar,” Trump said of the US states and others who have now joined what he called his “GENEROUS” initiative, passing along the cost saving to state-administered Medicaid programs covering roughly 70 million Americans.

“This will save states billions and billions of dollars per year on drugs and allow them to invest those savings in providing better healthcare and higher quality service for the American people,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “I mean, this one thing alone should win us the midterm.

“Many left-wing critics predicted that the states would not participate in our most favored nation initiative, and some of the blue states tried not to, but they couldn’t help it when you’re getting your drugs for 70, 80, 90% less.”

Trump cited a White House Council Economic Advisers estimate that states would save Medicaid $64 billion over the next 10 years.

The White House estimates that the broader MFN initiative will save the government $529 billion over a decade.

Big Pharma also agreed to offer discounts for certain drugs for Americans without insurance on the new “TrumpRx” platform.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: 50states; billions; discount; drug; medicaid; prescriptiondrugs; trumprx; unanimous

[DugwayDuke]

FredSchwartz wrote: “Trump should announce that the FDA will not approve any new drugs unless they can be purchased for $100 or less, cash price for a 30 day prescription.”

And, if that drug costs $500 and will save lives? You seem to think that drug prices are arbitrary and have no relationship to actual costs. You also seem to think that the value of a persons life is $100 per month.

[catnipman]

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