NEWS ANCHOR:
00:01:56
So what should people take away from all this? So if you're on Medicare, the negotiated drug discounts are real, and that's a meaningful change. But for everyone else, you have to comparison shop across TrumpRx, GoodRx, Cost Plus Drugs, and your insurance plan, your local retail pharmacy, your mail-order pharmacy to get the best deal. And if you have insurance, be careful with coupons because that payment may not count towards your deductible. The bigger issue is that the things driving high costs, so patent strategies that block generics, pharmacy middlemen, rising list prices, those things have not changed.
NEWS ANCHOR:
00:02:34
Doctor Céline Gounder, thank you.