Mehmet Oz and arithmetic were like oil and water during an at-times confusing interview with NBC News.

Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, made an eyebrow-raising effort to defend Donald Trump’s impossible claims about having cut prescription drug prices by as much as “1,500 percent.”

“Cutting drug prices by...anything over 100 percent wouldn’t that effectively make them free?” Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker asked after rolling several clips of Trump, 79, talking about how much he has lowered costs. “Is that a realistic goal from the president?”

To the former television host, it made perfect sense.

“The president does the calculation by saying, ‘OK, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100 percent cheaper because you’re taking

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