{"id":280948,"date":"2025-11-09T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280948\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:51:07","slug":"trump-administration-announces-major-price-cuts-for-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280948\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration announces major price cuts for weight loss drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORFOLK, Va. \u2014 Weight loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy will become more accessible to millions of Americans after the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/11\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-major-developments-in-bringing-most-favored-nation-pricing-to-american-patients\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration<\/a> announced a deal with two major pharmaceutical companies to cut prices for government insurance programs.<\/p>\n<p>The new pricing agreement will benefit patients who qualify for Medicaid and Medicare, as well as eligible users of the planned Trump Rx prescription website. The deal represents a significant reduction from current costs, which can reach $1,350 per month for some patients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have negotiated a reduced price for the government of $245 a month. Medicare patients with a co-pay of $50 a month. And for Medicaid that&#8217;s going to depend on whether states will opt into do it and then they set the co-pays, said &#8221; Dr. Celine Gounder from KFF Health News.<\/p>\n<p>The administration says the goal is to improve both access and affordability for these popular GLP-1 medications. The drugs will be available next year through the administration&#8217;s prescription website.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORFOLK, Va. \u2014 Weight loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy will become more accessible to millions of Americans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-280948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}