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Speaker 1: Anything like it. Starting tonight, dozens of the most commonly

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Speaker 1: all consumers throughout a new website. It's called trumprx dot gov.

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Speaker 1: That's trumprx dot gov.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. It's nice to have you with us

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Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one

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Speaker 3: big story for you. President Donald Trump has launched trumparx

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Speaker 3: dot gov. It is a website offering all Americans major

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Speaker 3: discounts on prescription drug prices. The President saying it's historic,

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Speaker 3: slashing costs of medication through deals with sixteen major pharmaceutical companies.

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Speaker 3: It's a forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: It is official. The White House has announced and launched

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Speaker 3: the site trumprx dot gov. That's right, it is. It's

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Speaker 3: truly incredible to see what the President is now put

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Speaker 3: together in an historic launch to lower drug prices for

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Speaker 3: American patients. President Trump announcing the launch of trump rx

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Speaker 3: dot gov. Through the website, patients, we'll be able to

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Speaker 3: access large discounts on many of the most popular and

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Speaker 3: the highest price medications in the country, paying prices in

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Speaker 3: line with the lowest paid by other developed nations, known

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Speaker 3: as the most favored nation price. Something America could have

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Speaker 3: done decades ago, but we didn't do it. Why because

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Speaker 3: of corruption Washington, the drug manufacturers and lobbyists making sure

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Speaker 3: that you paid more than anyone else in the world

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Speaker 3: on many of the medications we're talking about right now

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Speaker 3: Nowaday's launch featured drugs made by the first five manufacturers

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Speaker 3: to reach MFN pricing deals with the Trump administration. We're

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Speaker 3: talking about big companies like Astrozenica, Eli, Lilly, Nova, Nordisk,

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Speaker 3: and Pfizer. Additional drugs from other companies that have signed

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Speaker 3: the MFN pricing deals will be made available through trump

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Speaker 3: urx dot gov, they say in the coming weeks and months.

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Speaker 3: Now trump ourx dot gov provides patients, the White House said,

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Speaker 3: with access to a world class experience for accessing deep

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Speaker 3: discounts on medicines that you need. Depending on the manufacture

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Speaker 3: able to access savings through their user friendly coupons that

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Speaker 3: can be printed or downloaded onto your phone, or through

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Speaker 3: channels set up by the manufacturer and then integrated into

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Speaker 3: trump ARX dot gov. Why is the President doing all

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Speaker 3: of this. It's actually for a very simple reason. The

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Speaker 3: President of the United States of America says, we have

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Speaker 3: to put Americans first and our patients first. Here's more

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Speaker 3: the President of the United States of America in his

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Speaker 3: own words on this, and how exciting is about the

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Speaker 1: We're here this evening to celebrate the launch of one

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Speaker 1: of the most transformative healthcare initiatives of all time. There's

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Speaker 1: never been anything like it. Starting tonight, dozens of the

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Speaker 1: most commonly used prescription drugs will be available at dramatic

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Speaker 1: discounts for all consumers throughout a new website. It's called

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Speaker 1: trumprx dot gov. That's trump rx dot gov. For years,

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Speaker 1: politicians from both parties have promised to bring down prescription

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Speaker 1: drug prices and make healthcare more affordable. But they all failed.

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Speaker 1: It was all words as usual. They failed, and they

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Speaker 1: failed badly. They tried doing this, some of them, most

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Speaker 1: of them didn't even try because they never really had

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Speaker 1: a shot at it. But I'm actually getting it done.

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Speaker 1: Is done. Actually, this launch represents the largest reduction and

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Speaker 1: prescription drug prices in history by many, many times, and

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Speaker 1: it's not even close. You're going to see numbers that

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Speaker 3: Purchasing directly through Trump ar ex GOV will be able

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Speaker 3: you'll be able to see. The White House says massive

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Speaker 3: price reductions on forty of the most popular and expensive

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Speaker 3: branded medications in the nation. Select examples include historic price reductions.

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Speaker 3: The White House said for Americans on the two drugs

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Speaker 3: of the highest annual expenditures in the United States which

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Speaker 3: help adults struggling with diabetes heart disease. These are drugs

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Speaker 3: like ozeimpic, and they also help with obesity, getting that

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Speaker 3: under control, and other conditions. The monthly price of ozimpic

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Speaker 3: and injection injectables like that will fall from more than

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Speaker 3: As well. Massive savings on some of the most commonly

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Speaker 3: something the President promised, and help American families grow. Many

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Speaker 3: directing the administration to take numerous actions to bring American

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Speaker 3: President Trump announced sixteen deals with major pharmaceutical manufacturers to

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Speaker 3: the Great Healthcare Plan, which he said with lower drug

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Speaker 3: price transparency for all Americans. Another major win for so

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Speaker 3: many Americans that voted for Donald Trump. And as he said,

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Speaker 3: He is excited about it. Trumprx dot gov another campaign

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