Dr. Oz Gets Math Completely Wrong After Being Grilled By NBC About Drug Prices [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
Oct 22nd, 2025, 7:45 pm
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz confounded NBC News anchor Kristen Welker on Wednesday after he got the math completely wrong upon being grilled about President Donald Trump’s pharmaceutical price reform.
“The president has talked about lowering drug prices, pharmaceutical prices, and he’s repeatedly claimed that he could cut those prices by more than 100%,” said Welker during an interview on Meet the Press NOW, before playing a series of clips of Trump boasting about cutting drug prices “by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%.”
The NBC News anchor then questioned, “Cutting drug prices by 400%, anything over 100%, wouldn’t that effectively make them free? Is that a realistic goal from the president?” Welker’s math wasn’t quite right. Cutting drug prices by 100% would make them free, not “anything over 100%, which would imply the seller would pay people to “buy” their products.
Dr. Oz replied, “The president does the calculation by saying, ‘Okay, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100% cheaper because you’re taking $50 off and left with only $50, so the amount you took off the price is equal to the amount that’s left. They’re equal so it’s 100%.'” “He said 1,500%!” Welker pointed out. “In one of those, he said 1,500%.”
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