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October 23, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Dr. Oz Fails Obvious Math Question Trying to Defend Trump Drug Prices
The math isn’t mathing.
May 22, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Cognitive Decline? Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Drug Prices
Donald Trump exposed his own cluelessness about how drug pricing works.
May 12, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Fails Basic Math Problem in His Own Drug Prices Executive Order
Donald Trump made some wild claims about how much he’s about to bring down drug costs.
May 12, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Drug Prices Executive Order Is a Big Pile of Nothing
Donald Trump has tried something like this once before—and failed.
April 18, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s New Medicaid Chief Has Boneheaded Idea to Lower Drug Costs
Dr. Oz made the comments right after being sworn in.
February 1, 2024
Grace Segers
Bernie Sanders Has a Plan to Make Big Pharma’s Greedheads Squirm
The senator spoke to TNR about how he’ll grill the CEOs of three drug manufacturers about their high prices.

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