Trump suggested Thursday he wants to bring the price of Ozempic and similar medicines down to a level comparable to what's paid in Europe. Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images

Janet McCaskill was on vacation in Arizona with her husband and best friend when she heard that President Donald Trump had suggested he might be able to bring the cost of popular weight-loss drugs down to $150 a month.

“The thought of it going to $150 a month is dramatic,” said McCaskill, a grandmother from North Carolina who’s lost 100 pounds with the help of GLP-1 medicines, a class best known for the diabetes drug Ozempic. “That is most fantastic – if it comes to pass.”

Trump planted the idea Thursday in an Oval Office news conference about an entirely different set of drugs – those for in vitro fertilization –

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