Posted on 05/18/2026 8:06:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
President Trump just did something Washington has talked about for decades but never delivered: he built a tool that lets Americans see what their prescriptions actually cost and shop for the best deal.
The White House announced a major expansion of TrumpRx.gov, the administration’s drug-price transparency platform, adding more than 600 generic medications to the site.
TrumpRx and Most-Favored-Nations Drug Pricing: Saving BILLIONS for Americans.
Watch President Trump deliver remarks on TrumpRx at 4:30 pm TODAY. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/BiGOIEtjqd— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 18, 2026
Even more notable than the drug list is who Trump brought into the room to make it work.
Mark Cuban, Amazon Pharmacy, GoodRx, and Cost Plus Drugs are all now integrated into the platform, giving users real-time price comparisons from multiple discount providers in one place.
Cuban, of course, was no Trump ally during the 2024 campaign. He stumped hard for Kamala Harris and took shots at Trump on every cable news show that would book him.
Trump brought him in anyway, because the goal is lowering prices, not nursing grudges.
That is the difference between a dealmaker and a politician.
The White House fact sheet explained the expansion this way:
The administration said TrumpRx.gov now includes more than 600 generic medications, giving Americans a clearer way to compare cash prices for everyday prescriptions without being trapped inside the usual insurance and pharmacy middleman maze.
The fact sheet said the site will let patients compare competitive cash prices against what their insurance company offers. It also said the new generic-drug listings are separate from the discounts on high-cost branded medications tied to President Trump’s Most-Favored-Nation drug price agreements.
The new platform integrates discounts from Amazon Pharmacy, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, and GoodRx, while offering local pharmacy and delivery options. The White House listed common medicines such as atorvastatin, clopidogrel, lisinopril, and metformin as examples of the kinds of everyday generics featured.
The core idea is simple: patients should be able to see the price before they pay it, compare that price against their insurance copay, and choose the option that actually saves them money.
The site works like a search engine for prescription drug prices. You type in your medication, and it pulls up cash-pay options from multiple providers so you can compare instantly.
No middlemen. No hidden pharmacy benefit manager markups.
Just the price.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Expansion of TrumpRx to Bring Americans Transparency and Choice on Everyday Medicineshttps://t.co/ldd4PL72tm— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 18, 2026
The Cuban partnership became one of the sharpest parts of the rollout.
VIDEO AT LINK.........
“He made a mistake. It was a big mistake.”
President Trump jokes about Mark Cuban previously backing Kamala Harris as the two appear together at a healthcare affordability event focused on lowering prescription drug costs.
Trump says Cuban joined the effort because “this is… pic.twitter.com/ot5rA1L56y— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 18, 2026
The Washington Examiner reported that the Trump administration is joining with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, Amazon Pharmacy, and GoodRx to add generic medications to TrumpRx.
AP reported the practical scope of the rollout:
President Trump announced that more than 600 generic medications are being added to TrumpRx, dramatically expanding a discounted-drug website that launched earlier in his administration.
The expansion is made possible through partnerships with Amazon Pharmacy, GoodRx, and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs. Trump said the additions make the site’s offerings nearly seven times larger and that TrumpRx has already had more than 10 million visits since launch.
The savings depend on a patient’s situation. People with strong insurance may sometimes do better through their plan, while uninsured patients or people stuck with high deductibles may benefit more from seeing cash-price discounts.
That caveat strengthens the case for the site because it proves why price comparison matters in the first place.
Americans should be able to see whether the cash price, the coupon price, or the insurance copay is the best deal before they hand over their money.
The political fight is affordability, but the practical fight is information. A family at the pharmacy counter should not need a consultant to know whether they are being overcharged.
Some outlets have pointed out that TrumpRx.gov is most useful as a cash-price comparison tool and may not always beat what someone pays through employer insurance.
That criticism runs straight into the point of the project.
Transparency matters because millions of Americans are uninsured, underinsured, or stuck with high-deductible plans where they are paying cash prices anyway. For those people, this site can be a real tool.
Axios noted why the generic-drug piece matters:
Adding hundreds of generics fills a major gap in TrumpRx because generic drugs are often cheaper than brand-name medicines and are exactly what many families use month after month.
Mark Cuban joined Trump at the White House, bringing in a business model built around direct-to-consumer prescription sales through Cost Plus Drugs.
Amazon Pharmacy, Cost Plus Drugs, and GoodRx discounts will be integrated into the site, turning TrumpRx into a comparison point rather than another government page that tells people to trust the system.
Trump’s own explanation was direct: consumers need one source where they can check whether they are getting the lowest possible price on a prescription.
That is the kind of sentence Washington experts often overcomplicate because it makes too much common sense.
One website will not fix every health-care bill in America.
But competition starts when customers can finally see the prices hidden from them.
That is why generic drugs are such an important addition. They are the ordinary, repeat-fill medications where small monthly savings can add up fast for families on tight budgets.
And even for insured Americans, knowing the actual cash price gives you leverage. If your copay is $45 and the same drug is $8 through Cost Plus, you should know that.
The pharmaceutical middleman industry has survived for decades because nobody could see the real numbers. Trump just turned the lights on.
This is a cost-of-living story. Families are paying too much for basic medications because the system is designed to hide prices and protect margins.
Trump is doing what he has always done best: using competition and leverage to break through a rigged system.
Washington spent years holding hearings about drug prices.
They wrote reports. They gave speeches.
They did nothing.
Trump built a website, called his opponents, and got the deal done. That is what happens when you put a businessman in the Oval Office instead of another career politician.
Good for Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban, eh? I guess Cuban will have to take back that crack about Trump not surrounding himself with strong women.
The pharmaceutical middleman industry has survived for decades because nobody could see the real numbers. Trump just turned the lights on.
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The Pelosi Principal (if you pass the bill you can see what it says) applied to Rx: you buy your Rx then you find out how much you have pay.
H/t orange man
Impressive, go to TrumpRx, the comparison sources are linked to whatever med you put in the search field.
Amazon Med offers a physician medical consult/prescription service for $99.00 per year membership.
It is an elegant solution.
Link: https://trumprx.gov/p/ivermectin
They won’t take Regence Medicare insurance, though…so not for me.
The most important thing the U.S. could see would be upgrading to an implementation of free market principles in healthcare.
Milton Friedman is rolling over in his grave at how we’ve self immolated on this issue of health.
Most of the prescription medications I take, have a “copay” that exceeds the cash cost of the drug. That is why when I go to Canada, Mexico, I take a prescription with me or why I use a GoodRx discount card for most of my medications.
About 15 years ago, I found that I could go to a compounding pharmacy and get chemically the same medication for a fraction of my health insurance copay. I spent time talking to the pharmacist and he explained the way that health insurance makes huge amounts of profits off of prescription medications. They and their PBM Prescription Benefit Managers “create” a market price for a drug that happens to be much much higher than the actual price and then they charge a copy that is maybe 20 to 24% of that inflated price, but actually more than the actual cash price.
The US does not have a health care crisis, we have an Insurance industry affordability crisis that is based on inflated prices for everything.
I do not need TrumpRx.
I have not paid more than $20 for a 90 day supply of any of my five drugs all year.
This action may be unnecessary for drugs for folks on Medicare as prior action by Trump already mandated MFN (Most favored nation) pricing for the U.S. is required on hundreds of drugs. The drug companies can no longer under price the drugs to other countries and offset that by over-pricing us. The discounts many foreign countries are now mandating in drug prices will/are no affect the MFN pricing they have to offer in the U.S. As a consequence many drug prices have already been going down.
Is TrumpRx just something else to put his name on???
That’s what I thought, but I checked out of curiosity and my meloxicam is half the price via Amazon than what I pay at Walmart with GoodRX coupons. $9.50 for 90 tablets
The GovRx site should include all prices under all insurance plans, not just “cash paying” customers and “discounters”.
I suspect some folks are using Amazon and GoodRx without even checking what their own insured drug plan would cost out of pocket. I have checked and the GoodRx “discount” has never beat the out of pocket I get on my insured drug plan.
Thanks for posting this. I will check on new additions to their database periodically.
Thanks!👍
Thanks. We do have GOOD Rx. It does make a difference on a couple prescriptions. So far none of mine are listed on Trumprx. I have an eye drop for glaucoma I am using not listed. I’m paying over $100 copay out of pocket for. I sure would like to see that one go down…
I don’t have insurance, much less prescription coverage. I pay everything out of pocket.
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