Destroys best currently available option for health care
Starts amazon for drugs
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Not even Amazon - it's a cheap, travelocity-ass frontend for showing the cheapest existing prices already available. The administration has, admittedly, claimed that they've made deals with pharmaceutical companies to make some of their drugs available for as cheaply as they are already available in other countries. But, as the AP notes,
Many of the details of Trump’s deals with manufacturers remain unclear , and drug prices for patients in the U.S. can depend on many factors, including the competition a treatment faces and insurance coverage. Most people have coverage through work, the individual insurance market or government programs like Medicaid and Medicare, which shield them from much of the cost. https://apnews.com/article/trumprx-website-trump-drug-prices-pharmaceuticals-eae897ebf87349510a7795035a3043a3
So if you're looking for a meaningful, long-term solution to one of the U.S.'s greatest healthcare deficiencies, the administration would like to interest you in this service they constructed with all the forethought and durability of a child's cardboard lemonade stand.
The saddest thing is if this government run pharmacy was under a far more competent administration there would not be skepticism among the wider public, and maybe lower drug prices for real.
Sadistic sociopath who abhors poor people offers medicine for only poor people. What could possibly go wrong?
Sure it's just chalk pressed into the shape of a pill, but it was cheap.
My bet is some sort of industrial waste.
Yeah I mean, chalk, rat poison, industrial waste. Whatever's cheapest that day.
When previous presidents named their healthcare supports after themselves, like Obamacare, it was portrayed as an alternate name to the official title, and clearly tried to keep things bipartisan. TrumpRX sounds like he's personally making money off this new platform.
Obama didn't name it Obamacare. Republicans called it that in the hopes that it would make people think it was bad.
The ACA was never officially called Obamacare. Right wing pundits just repeatedly called it that until everyone called it that.