Only I can fix it · First term · № 28

Only I can fix it

Nobody else would have gotten health care price transparency

“But nobody else would have gotten it but this administration: price transparency.”
Said
, Rose Garden remarks on reducing insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries
Subject
health care price transparency
Topic
Health care
Era
First term

What happened

He made the same claim in Des Moines on January 30, 2020 ("Nobody else would have gotten it done, that I can tell you"). In August 2022 PolitiFact rated Half True a claim that "Nobody's enforcing" the hospital price transparency law. On February 25, 2025, he signed a new executive order on price transparency; the White House fact sheet said "the prior Administration failed to prioritize further implementation and enforcement of these requirements" and that the Biden administration "was sued in 2023 for not enforcing the prescription drug transparency requirements."

Sources

  1. Remarks on Efforts To Reduce Insulin Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries and an Exchange With Reporters The American Presidency Project (UCSB), May 26, 2020
  2. Remarks at a "Keep America Great" Rally in Des Moines, Iowa The American Presidency Project (UCSB), Jan 30, 2020
  3. Rapper Fat Joe says no one is making sure hospitals post prices. Is that right? PolitiFact, Aug 9, 2022
  4. White House Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Make Healthcare Prices Transparent The American Presidency Project (UCSB), Feb 25, 2025