U.S. President Donald Trump, successful beforehand of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivers remarks astatine the White House, successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 22, 2025.
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
President Donald Trump connected Thursday rolled retired the wide outline of a health-care program that the White House claims volition little cause prices and security premiums.
The announcement came arsenic a legislature effort to widen cardinal Affordable Care Act taxation credits faces headwinds from Senate Republicans, leaving millions astatine hazard of seeing their wellness security premiums spike.
The Trump medication dubbed the inaugural "The Great Healthcare Plan," the president said successful a video unveiling the argumentation Thursday morning.
"I'm calling connected Congress to walk this model into instrumentality without delay," Trump said. "Have to bash it close now."
The program would codify the deals Trump precocious struck with large drugmakers to slash the outgo of definite medicine drugs successful the U.S. by pegging them to little prices abroad, arsenic portion of his "most-favored-nation" policy.
More than a twelve pharmaceutical companies agreed to little prices connected definite products for Medicaid patients successful speech for a three-year exemption from tariffs.
As portion of those deals, companies besides agreed to merchantability immoderate medicines astatine a discount connected Trump's direct-to-consumer platform, Trump Rx.
Trump, successful his video announcement, said those little cause prices volition instrumentality effect connected the level erstwhile it launches this month. He claimed that those prices would plunge by arsenic overmuch arsenic 500%, adjacent though that would mean prices would autumn acold beneath $0.
The health-care model would "make much verified harmless pharmaceutical drugs disposable for over-the-counter purchase," according to a White House information sheet.
It would besides purportedly nonstop wealth for wellness security sum "directly to the American people" alternatively of giving "big security companies billions successful other taxpayer-funded subsidy payments," the information expanse says. Trump has repeatedly floated akin proposals successful caller remarks.
The program would additionally "fund a cost-sharing simplification program," which the medication says would "reduce the astir communal Obamacare program premiums by implicit 10%."
Other components of the argumentation see requiring wellness insurers to prominently station sum comparisons "in plain English" connected their websites, on with different accusation astir overhead costs and assertion denial rates.
It would besides necessitate providers who judge either Medicare oregon Medicaid "to publically and prominently station their pricing and fees to debar astonishment aesculapian bills."
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