Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew ridicule on social media Wednesday after defending what critics have beforehand mockingly dubbed the “MAGA math” of Donald Trump.
The president has repeatedly claimed in latest months that his administration has — or will — slash prescription drug costs by figures which can be greater than 100%, an assertion that’s mathematically inconceivable until corporations pay individuals to take their medicines.
During a Senate listening to, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) famous Trump’s declare that his TrumpRx web site, which seeks to promote discounted prescribed drugs on to sufferers, has “cut prices by as much as 600%.”
Kennedy tried to clarify Trump’s considering:
“President Trump has a different way of calculating … there’s two ways of calculating percentage. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.”
Warren didn’t have time to get into it with Kennedy.
But the reason is inaccurate, and critics have been fast to level it out:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-donald-trump-maga-math_n_69e9d8cee4b0bb584bc938e3