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Social Security Works Exec Dir discusses Trump’s new pseudo-populist Drug Pricing reduction scam. [1]
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Date: 2025-05-12
Donald Trump’s latest Executive Order, “Delivering most-favored-nation prescription drug pricing to American patients,” is another scam to cut Medicaid and Medicare.
Social Security Works Executive Director.
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Alex Lawson, Social Security Works Executive Director, explains that Donald Trump’s new “Most‑Favored‑Nation” executive order on drug pricing is largely symbolic, designed to distract voters from a House GOP plan that would slash Medicaid, SNAP, and other safety‑net programs to fund tax cuts for the wealthy; the order’s limited scope means it will not meaningfully lower most Americans’ prescription costs.
The executive order covers only a narrow Part B slice of Medicare drugs and omits retail prescriptions that burden seniors most.
Pharma lobbyists can easily stall or gut the rule, whereas fundamental reforms—such as complete Medicare price negotiation—face GOP opposition.
House Republicans are simultaneously advancing a reconciliation bill that would strip health coverage from an estimated 13.7 million people.
Trump cites hypothetical savings from the order (and tariff revenue) to justify massive new tax breaks for billionaires.
Lawson urges grassroots pressure—local protests at Social Security offices and hospitals—to force lawmakers to abandon the cuts.
This episode exposes a familiar right‑wing playbook: tossing the public a flimsy “populist” headline while dismantling programs that actually keep working families alive. True populism would expand Medicare’s negotiating power, defend Medicaid, and reinvest drug‑price savings into communities, not into Wall Street’s dividend checks.
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