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Pres. Trump's push to lower drug prices 'is a good starting point', says Dr. Scott Gottlieb

Published August 1, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:20

If you talk to people within that biologics center and how they felt about the leadership composition within that center, and it's going to, of course, depend on who they get in place. There's discussion that, you know, KennedySecretary Kennedy was supporting Vinay Prasad. and part of the concession that was made in terms of getting Kennedy to agree to his departure was that the vaccine group would be split out from the biologic … (09:20–09:28)

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“The Biologics center has seen 106 departures since the beginning of the year.”
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“The drug center lost about a third of the reviewers that review breast and gynecological cancer products.”
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“They lost more than half of the group that reviews malignant heme products.”
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“They've seen 473 departures of medical reviewers, voluntary departures, on top of about 600 RIFs.”
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“That's more than 20% at [the] center.”
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“The president clearly is focused on [drug pricing] through two terms right now.”
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“He tried to do this through a regulation in the first term, through a demonstration project at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…”
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“He wants the companies to offer the MFN price, the most favored nation price, day one within the Medicaid program.”
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“The difference between the MFN price and the prices paid in Medicaid could be substantial for some single source drugs.”
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“We need to move towards some type of tiered pricing globally where you basically price drugs based on the wealth of nations.”
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“The President in those letters that he sent was very clear that he wants prices in the US to come down if prices in Europe and other nations…”
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“The US Trade representative and other entities within the US would support companies.”
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“There was a moment in time where we tried to negotiate some of these provisions into free trade agreements.”
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“Offering some kind of portal, some kind of online portal, a direct to consumer portal where companies would agree to sell to consumers…”
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“US Authorities let other countries put in place these price control regimes and didn't support manufacturers in pushing back against those.”
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“That really happened over, I would say the late 1990s and early 2000s. A lot of these regimes went in.”
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“Germany started to put these really draconian provisions in place probably in the mid 2000s.”
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“The cost of goods is very low. And so if you can still eke out a profit in Germany, selling it at 50% of the price, you can gain in the US…”
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“If the USTR is willing to step in here and really support manufacturers in pushing back against some of these regimes and make this a…”
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“Bio actually did a survey of its members and they quantified this.”
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“Part of the concession that was made in terms of getting Kennedy to agree to his departure was that the vaccine group would be split out…”
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“They would appoint a new head of that vaccine group, presumably someone who shares Secretary Kennedy's views about vaccines.”
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