Last month, Donald Trump claimed that he was going to get popular weight loss drugs, or as infamously referred to them as “fat shots,” to be the same price they were in other countries. He made this claim:
Well, in London you’d buy a certain drug for $130 and even less than that, I guess $88 as of account a month ago. And in New York you pay $1300 for the same thing. So now we’re going to be paying. Instead of 1300, you’ll be paying about $150 and they’ll be paying $150 too. We’re going to pay the same thing. Favored nations.
He was asked for clarification at the time by a reporter:
Reporter: “you mentioned a $1300 drug at the top of this. Were you referring to the weight loss drugs?”
Trump: “Yeah I was referring to Ozempic or the fat loss drug.”
Reporter: “So those are going to be. $150.00 out of pocket for America”
Trump: “Yeah well there’ll be much lower, there’ll be much lower.”
Last week at an announcement about lowered price for weight loss drugs he pre-complained that reporters were not going to cover the lower prices, saying “they don’t write about, you know, they like to not write these things.” It turned out he didn’t deliver on the promise he made. He also said this at that event:
committing to offer Zepbound and Wegovy at most favored nations rates for American patients. This will slash the cost if Wegovy from $1350 a month to ultimately $250. 1,350 to 250.
$250 is significantly more than $150 and even more than $88.
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