Trump is again claiming he's "cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1,500%. I don't mean 50%. I mean 1400, 1,500%"

[highplainsdem]

Trump: You know, we've cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1,500%. I don't mean 50%. I mean 1400, 1,500%

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-08-04T00:10:48.576Z

[Norrrm]

1. The pharmacy is going to pay you 14x the original price to take the medicine home.

1500% decrease

[wcmagumba]

2. Trump is a total Moran...

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. I'm beginning to see how someone could manage to bankrupt a casino. nt

[Ocelot II]

4. If you're taking some expensive medication, you could make some big bucks off your pharmacy.

[Celerity]

5. he is box of rocks stupid

[bucolic_frolic]

6. so if the drug was $600 a month, and it's 1500% cheaper

that means they will pay you 15x the $600 a month to take it!! So you get $9,000 a month, minus the original cost of $600.

Where's my check?

[KelleyKramer]

7. He's too stupid to realize nothing can go down more than 100%

He really is dumb as a bag of dirt.

It used to be funny, now he is just a national embarrassment.

[Hugin]

8. Then how come for the first time in my life I got a surprise medical bill for a blood draw?

Yes, medical debt can now be from a common diagnostic procedure.

Oh, don't get me started on putting tariffs on those countries that supply most of our advanced medications.

[Ms. Toad]

10. You don't think they do it for free, do you?

There is always a charge for it. Depending on how the bill is itemized, or parsed out for insurance, if may not always be obvious, or called out separately - but you are paying for it.

When my doctor started charging for finger pricks in a way that left me with a copay for the process of poking my finger in 2009 I had to find a different lab that bundled the venipuncture charge with the lab work charges, since I was having daily blood tests, and the $5 copay a day was ridiculous.

[Hugin]

12. No, it wasn't a change in the lab...

I am not sure how stupid you believe I am.

It was a change in my insurance coverage.

[Ms. Toad]

13. Your comment didn't make much sense.

Since you seemed to be surprised that they were charging for a medical test. And you didn't mention insurance, so you appeared to be talking about what the doctor charged for, not what insurance paid.

The bills for the process of taking the sample are usually bundled with other things, and usually in a way that insurance covers. Often you won't get a bill that is: itemized sufficiently to call it out. When that changes, especially mid-year, you should investigate why. Sometimes it is a billing error, sometimes it is an insurance error.

And sometimes it is a doctor who has found a loophole that allows them to bundle it in a way that they get more money. That is what happened when the doctor start charging a copay for my fingerpricks. He discovered if he had a nurse do it on a day separate from any other sppointment he could call it an office visit. Since he refused to process it in the way he previously did (as part if a lab bundle - for which insurance does not permit a copay), I had to find an independent lab which did not use an employee to take the sample who was eligible for a copay charge.

[rickyhall]

9. He means they'll pay us to take them, right?

[Ms. Toad]

11. The next time he says that,

A reporter needs to ask him if he really believes drug companies are going to pay customers multiple times the current cost of the drug. He won't have a clue, but it should be pointed l out that he is being ridiculous.

[MineralMan]

14. Understanding percentages is hard. Like fractions.

Never mind that most kids get that pretty much down in elementary school. Trump never paid much attention in school, so he never understood that concept.

Now, if they discounted medications that way, you'd be getting paid by the pharmacist for picking up your prescriptions. I haven't noticed that happening, though. I have zero co-pay for mine, so I don't have to shell out any money, but that's just a 100% discount from my point of view. It's not, of course, since it's my Medicare Advantage plan that is paying for my meds. I don't know how much they pay, though.

I do understand percentage discounts, though,

Trump does not. And isn't that interesting?

[karynnj]

15. And to think, it is his gut opinion that the BLS statisticians

Put out "bad" numbers? He clearly doesn't understand what percents are.