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Marty Makary: “We're going to make another announcement on animal testing…”

Featuring: Marty Makary, Commissioner of Food and Drugs | National

RFK Jr makes major announcement about lower drug prices for Americans

Published October 29, 2025 | Video Starts at 28:22

And so we've announced a ton of these reforms, reducing animal testing requirements and talking about that for 20 years now. We've got good computational modeling and we have our roadmap public. And We're going to make another announcement on animal testing requirement elimination probably next week. on the Trump rx. Trump RX is genius because you can bypass healthcare's middlemen, if you like healthcare's middlemen, marking up the price of drugs and taking kickbacks from the manufacturers. (28:22–28:28)

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“The fastest growing area of health care spending in the United States is drug spending.”
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“50% of Americans have less than $500 of cash on hand.”
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“There's about 76 [biosimilars] that the FDA has approved since we started approving biosimilars.”
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“When Humira, the powerful biologic which works wonders, came off patent, it took seven years for a biosimilar to come to market.”
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“Only 10% [of biologics] have a biosimilar in development. It should be 30% or 40% or more.”
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“Sometimes the branded biologic manufacturer is paying the PBM to make sure that biosimilars are not added to that formulary.”
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“Medications [are] now coming down to a price point of pennies on the dollar.”
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“They [FDA] had a citizens petition and two business days before this new administration, they took action on one of them.”
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“The fastest area of drug spending increases is with this new class of medicines called biologics.”
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“Biologics [can cost] up to $200,000, almost a quarter million dollars for some.”
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“There are low cost alternatives to these expensive biologics.”
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“This reform will take the five to eight year time frame to bring a biosimilar to market and cut it in half.”
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“It will also save companies about $100 million in their development costs.”
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“Today, the FDA is also announcing its plans to issue final guidance on interchangeability.”
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“The fundamental problem in healthcare is that we have non-competitive markets.”
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“When the first biosimilar came on the market seven years after Humira's patent expired, prices really didn't go down.”
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“It takes typically until two or three biosimilars come to market to see the prices really drop.”
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“There have been waivers of those switching studies that have been granted by the FDA.”
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“Now we're going to issue clear final guidance that those [switching studies] are not required.”
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“Knowing that now they [drug developers] can invest in a biosimilars development and have a timeframe of coming to market from being at the…”
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“We've identified ways that we can streamline that process as we are with other drugs.”
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“Biosimilars are in both [Medicare] parts.”
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“When Humira had its biosimilar come out seven years later, it should be about two years.”
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“At the FDA there are great ideas that just have not gotten daylight.”
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“Take for example our work on removing the nine petroleum based food dyes from the US food supply.”
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“We've announced a ton of these reforms, reducing animal testing requirements.”
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“Trump RX is genius because you can bypass healthcare's middlemen.”
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“We're saying basically we think all biosimilars should be interchangeable.”
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“We're planting a flag saying we want interchangeability, we promote it, we encourage it.”
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“I would love it if Congress solidified this in law, but we're not going to wait for them.”
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