Posted on 10/10/2025 9:11:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As RedState previously wrote, President Trump and the CEO of Pfizer, Dr. Albert Bourla spoke at a press conference at the White House about striking a new deal on lowering prescription drug prices for Americans. As my colleague Ward Clark wrote in late September, "President Trump announced that Pfizer will be discounting drugs sold on the American market by 50 to 100 percent."
The president added that newer drugs from the pharmaceutical giant would be sold at a reduced rate through his Most Favored Nation policy:
We're also announcing that, moving forward, all new medications introduced by Pfizer to the American market will be sold at the reduced, most-favored-nation cost. So we'll be paying, essentially, what other countries are paying.
On Friday, a second big name in drug manufacturing agreed to a deal, announcing it at the White House, with AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot standing alongside the president, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Health and Human Services), Administrator Mehmet Oz (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), and Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
.@POTUS: Today, @AstraZeneca — the largest pharmaceutical manufacturer in the UK — is committing to offer Americans major discounts on their vast catalog of prescription drugs in a Most Favored Nation pricing structure pic.twitter.com/q8q4V7qkfN— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 10, 2025
"Today, AstraZeneca — the largest pharmaceutical manufacturer in the UK — is committing to offer Americans major discounts on their vast catalog of prescription drugs and a Most Favored Nations pricing cause," Pres. Trump said, then explained that MFN means "you're going to pay whatever the lowest price is in the world."
He said that Americans would soon be able to seek out the lower priced medications at a new website, TrumpRx.gov:
.@POTUS: "@AstraZeneca will also list many of their most popular drugs online at https://t.co/K8AfmTOJ8a ... at heavily reduced, Most Favored Nations costs. Americans can expect discounts ... it could be, in many cases, way over 100%." pic.twitter.com/lxrofUQoLw— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 10, 2025
Trump gave a few examples of expected savings, saying that "One particular drug that's hot, very hot," the reduction would be 654 percent. He added that "on inhalers, COPD, and asthma, as well as certain diabetic medications, they're going to be averaging about 654 percent reduction in price."
He shared that American taxpayers would also be getting a break to the tune of "hundreds of millions of dollars each year," with AstraZeneca promising to reduce the costs of pharmaceuticals to Medicaid patients.
Pres. Trump continued, saying that the company has also agreed to make its products in the United States, and put a down payment of $50 billion on researching new drugs on our shores:
.@POTUS: "Furthermore, @AstraZeneca will invest $50 billion in the United States over the next five years for Research and Development of new drugs, and to onshore manufacturing facilities across the country..." pic.twitter.com/bOYuyoeDmu— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 10, 2025
“Furthermore, AstraZeneca will invest $50 billion in the United States over the next five years for research and development of new drugs and to onshore manufacturing facilities across the country," Trump said, "like the new plant that broke ground yesterday in Charlottesville, Virginia.”
The governor of Virginia is tied in with this deal because "AstraZeneca this week broke ground on a new facility in Virginia, an event that was attended by Young and Oz." Youngkin called the deal "a landmark moment" for Americans and how they "can access medicines":
"Now, we can go direct to consumers, and that's what https://t.co/K8AfmTOJ8a is all about... where a consumer can come and find that particular medication that they need, and go direct to the company — and get the best possible price." pic.twitter.com/mRfZ4UvFBy— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 10, 2025
He underlined the fact that, as Pres. Trump said, Americans have been paying many times over what other countries' citizens have for years. "That is just not fair," he said.
Lastly, AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot spoke about Trump's "vision for a healthier America" being the guiding force behind making the deal happen:
.@AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot: "Today, I'm really excited to announce AstraZeneca's commitment to your vision for a healthier America... about lowering the price of medicines for American patients, while ensuring that America remains the global powerhouse of innovation and… pic.twitter.com/uSKnm5URRd— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 10, 2025
This is good for the people.
Downside is they will be adding the mrna “vax” free of charge to all discounted drugs.
Reduce the price by 100%=0
If, as Trump says, they reduce the price by 654 percent that means they will pay you to take the drugs.
Obama made the same mistake when pushing Obamacare.
Now ban the ads. Treat it like tobacco.
Obama: Premiums Will Decrease 3000% So You Should Get A Raise When H’care Is Passed
https://youtu.be/lUd-slJc-GY?t=65
They couldn’t pay me to put that Pfizer poison in my body.
Salient sentence: “So we’ll be paying, essentially, what other countries are paying.”
I am not looking for individual corporate “deals”.
Congress needs intervene and pass a simple law:
A drug company can sell it’s drugs at prices no more than the median price they are charging in the nations where the government, not the market, is setting the price (that would include Canada, Japan, most all of the EU and some others.
That simple law will get to the heart of the matter - the U.S. consumer should not be subsidizing the discounted drug prices in countries where the government, not the market, is setting the price. 100% of the countries where people pay lower prices the government is setting the price. We don’t need to set the price ourselves. We only need to bring it home to the drug companies that they cannot participate in government drug price fixing and get the U.S. consumer to subsidize it. Our simple law will mean the more they accept government price fixing elsewhere, the lower their price will have to be here.
My wife is telling me that the Insurance companies are jacking their prices in anticipation of the Drug companies’ reduction in pricing.
Great. Now do Bristol-Myers Squibb.
No, it is good for the stockholders. The drugs that cure cancer are not patented, therefore cheap, are readily available, and used in many countries not bound to AMA rules. The AMA is still pushing Remdesivir for treating CoVID. There are more survivors among those who chose IVM to deal with CoVID, and its generated protein spike.
Getting behind in your reading? Tobacco by itself has been the cure for cancer since the 1700's. Cigarettes have additional chemicals added to affect flavor and addictive properties. Apparently it works, because the AMA was behind the announcement that all tobacco products will be removed within the next few years (because we're not dying fast enough).
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