Don’t fall for the TrumpRx scam, MAGA: You’re paying more to make him richer

The new TrumpRx scam being rolled out by the America First Crime Family is aimed at the people who voted him back into the White House – MAGAs who don’t have health insurance, or cheap insurance with sky-high deductibles.

“It’s not going to be particularly helpful for most people who use prescription drugs, because most people purchase their drugs through their insurance,” Dr. Benjamin Rome, a Harvard Medical School professor, told USA Today.

This is where I actually feel bad for the easily hoodwinked, that they’re going to let themselves get literally swindled by the Trump crime syndicate – when they could instead vote for people who want a Medicare for All system that wouldn’t take money from their pockets and put it into the bank account of Trump and his grifting kids in the name of Making America Healthy Again.

Because that’s what’s going on here – a lot of bells and whistles for meds that you can get cheaper at your local grocery store.

“It’s sort of hollow. There’s not really much to it. If folks want to find prescription drugs cheaper, it’s probably much better to deal with programs like GoodRx, or ask your pharmacist,” said U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who is calling out TrumpRx for what it is.

“The president has basically got more of a webpage than a product or service, and that webpage is somewhat incomplete. It doesn’t give information about generic drugs that could be cheaper than the name-brand drugs that are being discussed,” Kaine said.

A review by the consumer-advocacy group Public Citizen of the name-brand drugs available on TrumpRx shows just under half that have generics that are available elsewhere for dramatically lower prices.

One for instance: Protnix, a heartburn and reflux drug, is listed on TrumpRx at $200.10, which is a big discount from the medication’s list price, but.

Dramatic pause.

According to GoodRx, you can get a generic version of Protnix with a coupon for $11.68 at Safeway or $15.61 at Walmart.

Doing Trump Math on the difference there, that’s 1,200, 1,500, even 500 percent lower than you’d paid on TrumpRx.

“If the White House really wanted to bring prescription drug costs down, they would be using the power that we gave to HHS to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies and bring drug prices down,” said Kaine, noting that the Biden administration used the Inflation Reduction Act to negotiate billions in savings for Medicare and Medicare beneficiaries.

“That power still exists for the Trump administration, but for some odd reason, they’ve chosen not to enter into these challenging negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to bring these prices down,” Kaine said. “If they really want to bring prices down, they have a way to do it. This is just another example of President Trump, frankly, focusing on issues other than pricing issues.”

To be fair, Trump’s focus is where it’s always been: on his bank account.