Dr. Mehmet Oz
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And with the pills, it's 150.
And the pills will come out, the first FDA approved pills will start this month.
And so we believe at that price, $5 a day.
Because it's basically you get coffee a day.
At that price, we will, within two years, return money to the American taxpayer.
It's going to save us so much money from reducing hypertension, diabetes, and the downstream illnesses, the four horsemen of the apocalypse that you mentioned, that we will save money.
We spend over half the money, I believe, within healthcare on these chronic illnesses driven by obesity.
And so, either directly or indirectly, because you hurt your knees because you're overweight, or you get autoimmune problems, or even cancer is linked to obesity because you have a metabolically active state, all of these are going to drop precipitously.
We have pretty good data on this from internal modeling.
So, we agreed to those prices with the two major companies, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
We will launch next week, I don't know when this podcast airs, but launch next week, Trump RX with those products.
So, you can cash pay
at a price that is completely affordable.
And here's the good news.
Every Medicare patient gets it for $50 copay.
Every Medicaid patient gets it for nothing.
So the people who need it the most, the folks that are most vulnerable.
When people say the president doesn't want to protect Medicaid, he doesn't love and cherish Medicare, it drives me bonkers.
Because he's doing more for underserved Americans than any other president ever has.
Giving Americans where the obesity epidemic lives, underserved Americans, vulnerable Americans who are on Medicaid, access to these drugs for no out-of-pocket costs, truly democratizes the weight loss issues.