Trump launches TrumpRX website to buy medicines at discounted prices

US President Donald Trump has launched a website that allows individuals to purchase prescription medications directly, as part of his efforts to address Americans’ concerns about the ability to afford treatment.

Trump will host an event at exactly seven o’clock in the evening (local time) to launch the site called TrumpRx at the White House, with the participation of the Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz, and the Chief Design Officer of the US Government, Joe Gebbia, according to what White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt announced in a post on the “X” platform.

The site aims to enable consumers to purchase some medications directly from pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, without the use of health insurance, and at reduced prices negotiated by the Trump administration.

Levitt did not specify when the site will actually go live, nor when some of the discounted medications, which were announced during a series of recent events at the White House, will be available for sale through the platform.

The administration has been touting its efforts to lower drug prices, including reaching agreements with more than a dozen of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, including Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Pfizer, often in exchange for reduced tariffs that were threatened to be imposed on them.

It is still unclear whether the site will be able to significantly reduce costs, or attract large numbers of Americans to pay cash for medications instead of going through health insurance systems.

Earlier this year, Trump said in a video clip in which he announced the general framework of his health plan that the administration was aiming to launch the website by the end of January.