Dr. Oz Gets Math Completely Wrong After Being Grilled By NBC About Drug Prices

Charlie Nash Oct 22nd, 2025, 7:45 pm

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz confounded NBC News anchor Kristen Welker on Wednesday after he got the math completely wrong upon being grilled about President Donald Trump’s pharmaceutical price reform.

“The president has talked about lowering drug prices, pharmaceutical prices, and he’s repeatedly claimed that he could cut those prices by more than 100%,” said Welker during an interview on , before playing a series of clips of Trump boasting about cutting drug prices “by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%.”

The NBC News anchor then questioned, “Cutting drug prices by 400%, anything over 100%, wouldn’t that effectively make them

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