{"id":248057,"date":"2025-11-06T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248057\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:14:08","slug":"trump-unveils-deals-to-lower-us-weight-loss-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248057\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump unveils deals to lower US weight-loss drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eli Lilly also said in a statement it would escape tariffs for three years as part of the agreement with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

An estimated 10% of Medicare beneficiaries will be eligible for expanded access to GLP-1 drugs, and will only pay $50, according to senior administration officials.<\/p>\n

Those enrolled in Medicaid will see a rolling start date based on when states sign up to participate, the officials said.<\/p>\n

Trump has long pushed for “most-favoured nations” prices – a policy aimed at aligning drug prices in the US with lower ones abroad.<\/p>\n

The obesity drugs will be sold at discounted prices on the direct-to-consumer TrumpRx<\/a>, a government-run website set to launch by January.<\/p>\n

On TrumpRx, Wegovy and Zepbound will start at $350 per month on average, and drop to $250 within two years, administration officials said. The Medicare prices of Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound will be $245.<\/p>\n

Along with Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, Eli Lilly’s weight-loss pill, orforglipron, will be sold for $149 for the lowest dose, Eli Lilly said in a statement. The company’s Zepbound medication will cost $299 for a starting dose.<\/p>\n

Those prices are dependent on Food and Drug Administration approval of the pills.<\/p>\n

“Lilly is in a unique position to work with the US government to rebalance the global system, expand access and lower costs for Americans,” David Ricks, Eli Lilly’s chief executive, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eli Lilly also said in a statement it would escape tariffs for three years as part of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-248057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}