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Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease
President Donald Trump has regularly said that drug-price discounts on his watch are greater than 100%, which isn't mathematically possible. Now his health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is trying. This cluster currently includes 2 articles from 2 sources.
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Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact This article originally appeared on PolitiFact . President Donald Trump has regularly said that drug-price discounts on his watch are greater than 100%, which isn't mathematically possible. Now his health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is.
Trump’s prescription drug math makes no sense. RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz have defended it anyway
President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them. Since last year, Trump has asserted that he has cut or will cut prescription drug prices by numbers like “500%,” “600%,”.