Trump tells Pa. truck workers fat drug prices coming down next week: That alone should win the midterms

President Trump told blue-collar Pennsylvanians Tuesday that “fat drugs” are going to become cheaper for millions of Americans next week after he strong-armed all major pharmaceutical companies to lower prices, declaring that his drug pricing reforms “alone should win the midterms.”Trump visited a Mack Trucks plant in eastern Pennsylvania to urge support for Republican congressional candidates with an economic appeal — saying the resolution of the Iran war would swiftly ease energy prices and inflation and that booming stock value are making husbands look like financial geniuses.Midterm elections generally have low turnout and Trump urged his own supporters to show up for lesser-known Republicans — and to remember how he saved them money on losing weight.“Starting next week, weight loss drugs will be available for just $50 — think of that‚ for seniors who previously had to pay $1,200,$1,300, $1,400,” Trump said in the cavernous facility, mere hours after White House officials denied that Trump was himself taking a new weight-loss drug.“Look, they turned the cameras off!”Medicare’s 68 million senior-citizen enrollees become eligible July 1 for new discounts as the Trump administration broadens access to GLP-1 drugs specifically for weight loss with a $50 copay, including for Wegovy, Foundayo and Zepbound.“These are the biggest price reductions in the history of our country for anything having to do with drugs, prescription medicine.So that alone should win the midterms,” Trump said of his “most favored nations” push, through which he used the threat of tariffs to get companies to bring US prices in line with sticker prices in other major countries.

“There’s a real chance that they would end it, because they’re totally controlled by these foreign countries, the Democrats.”Medicare Part D, which covers prescriptions, did not previously cover GLP-1 drugs for weight loss — meaning patients would have had to be paid out of poc...