Overview
- Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said President Trump uses a different way to calculate percentage changes on drug prices.
- He cited TrumpRx lowering a $600 medication to $10 as a 600% reduction and acknowledged that this departs from standard math.
- Senator Elizabeth Warren countered that the drop is about a 98% reduction under conventional arithmetic and warned the framing could mislead patients.
- TrumpRx is a federal website that lists discounted prices for brand-name drugs, and the exchange focused attention on how the site presents savings.
- Social media users and commentators ridiculed the remark and posted corrections, increasing scrutiny of the administration’s drug-price messaging.