{"id":6187,"date":"2025-08-19T23:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/trump-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-leaked-maha-report-rfk-jr-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:02:54","slug":"trump-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-leaked-maha-report-rfk-jr-dc-diagnosis-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/trump-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-leaked-maha-report-rfk-jr-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: How Trump may use Democrats\u2019 drug-price negotiation law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: How Trump may use Democrats\u2019 drug-price negotiation law<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>You\u2019re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT\u2019s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/dc\/\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy to report that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver did a segment on the MAHA movement that mentions Sarah Todd\u2019s story, Why MAHA\u2019s push on Coca-Cola and ice cream is \u201cnutritionally hilarious.\u201d Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3lzfH86avIc\">show<\/a>, read Sarah\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/17\/coca-cola-cane-sugar-ice-cream-synthetic-dyes-maha-nutrionally-hilarious\/\">piece<\/a>, and send news tips to <a href=\"mailto:John.Wilkerson@statnews.com\">John.Wilkerson@statnews.com<\/a> or John_Wilkerson.07 on Signal.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-will-trump-go-hard-on-medicare-drug-price-negotiation\">Will Trump go hard on Medicare drug price negotiation?<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats did the grueling work of passing a law to let Medicare negotiate drug prices. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/19\/trump-medicare-drug-price-negotiations-expected-to-exceed-biden\/\">Trump might be its biggest beneficiary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/19\/trump-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-leaked-maha-report-rfk-jr-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    John Wilkerson<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/19\/trump-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-leaked-maha-report-rfk-jr-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: How Trump may use Democrats\u2019 drug-price negotiation law You\u2019re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT\u2019s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.\u00a0Sign up here\u00a0to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I\u2019m happy to report that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver did a segment on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2157,2315,2177,2182,1428,2213,2215,3541,2176,2155,2151,2144,2149,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronic-disease","category-cms","category-d-c-diagnosis","category-donald-trump","category-drug-pricing","category-health","category-insurance","category-medicare","category-medicare-negotiation","category-pharma","category-pharmaceuticals","category-policy","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}