05.12.2025 / Statement
Families USA Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order on Prescription Drug Prices
WASHINGTON, D.C. -Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, today released the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order to tie what Medicare pays for medications administered in a doctor’s office to the lowest price paid by other countries.
“While consumer advocates have long advocated to lower prescription drug prices, the problem that Americans often pay more for medications than anyone else in the world can’t be solved with executive orders and vague promises. Any proposal would be better through Congress, but this comes the same day that Republicans in Congress are proposing the largest cut to Medicaid in history, that threatens to terminate coverage for nearly 14 million people and undermine the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program by narrowing the number of drugs eligible for negotiation. If the White House is serious about lowering drug costs, it would oppose the Energy and Commerce reconciliation proposals and instead encourage Congress to negotiate more drugs, not fewer – an approach supported by the vast majority of Americans from all political stripes.”
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