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May 20, 2025

Title: The Rising Cost of Prescription Drugs
Topic: Prescription Drugs

Discussed by Katy Talento
with Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries (www.ahcsm.org/)

Americans pay more for their prescription drugs than other wealthy countries. However, sky rocketing prescription drug prices is just one of many serious worries people have in established health care systems.

Today, new guest Katy Talento discusses this serious problem and who wants the costs to just keep getting higher and higher. Katy Talento is a licensed health benefits consultant, veteran health care reformer, and epidemiologist. Katy is the Executive Director for Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries.

Click here to read the statement on this topic issued by The White House and President Donald Trump.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Why do prescription drugs cost so much in America?

Why did President Donald Trump use the phrase a “most-favored-nation” and what does it mean?

Why and how do foreign countries hike up their prescription drug prices when exporting to the US? Is this just a recent situation? Katy explains that this has been going for years and years and reveals the TRUTH behind fictitious “research and development” costs.

How does the Trump Administration plan to lower prescription drug costs for Americans? Is this for ALL Americans or just for Medicare recipients?

Will pharmaceutical companies just shift their higher costs to insurance companies and private (uninsured) payers? Katy reveals what is already in the works and why the pharma companies are freaking out that their “secret prices” are being blasted to the public.

What is the purpose and mission of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries?

Click here for more information about Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries.

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