DCPD-202501101 - Remarks on Efforts To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs and an Exchange With Reporters - DCPD-202501101 | Content Details

DCPD-202501101 - Remarks on Efforts To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs and an Exchange With Reporters

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

Document Categories: Addresses and Remarks : Prescription drug costs, reduction efforts

Subjects: Acetaminophen and other fever reducers
Air traffic control system, improvement efforts
Automobile industry, strengthening efforts
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
China, trade with U.S.
COVID–19 pandemic
Critical minerals, supply chain improvements
District of Columbia, law enforcement improvement efforts
Election security and integrity, strengthening efforts
Eli Lilly and Co.
European Union, trade with U.S.
Federal Government appropriations, lapse
Federal programs, improvement efforts
Food and Drug Administration
Health insurance exchanges
Illegal immigration
India, Prime Minister
India, relations with Pakistan
Inflation
Insulin cost controls
Iran, Israeli airstrikes
Israel, airstrikes on Iran
Manufacturing industry, domestic investment
Medicare and Medicaid programs
Novo Nordisk
Pakistan, relations with India
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Pharmaceutical supply chains, improvement efforts
Prescription drug costs, reduction efforts
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Transportation
Senate filibuster
Tariffs
Tennessee, law enforcement improvement efforts in Memphis
U.S. diplomatic efforts, expansion
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Weight-loss drugs, costs and affordability
White House Communications Director

Names: Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Buttigieg, Peter P.M.; Cheung, Steven; Doustdar, Mike; Duffy, Sean P.; Emmer, Jacqueline; Emmer, Thomas E., Jr.; Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.; Klomp, Christopher; Lutnick, Howard W.; Makary, Martin A.; Mamdani, Zohran K.; Manchin, Joseph A., III; Modi, Narendra; Obama, Barack; Oz, Mehmet; Pelosi, Nancy; Ricks, David A.; Sinema, Kyrsten L.

Notes: The President spoke at 12:02 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to White House Communications Director Steven Cheung; former President Barack Obama; Jacqueline Emmer, wife of Rep. Emmer; former Secretary of Transportation Peter P.M. Buttigieg; and former Sens. Joseph A. Manchin III and Kyrsten L. Sinema. Administrator Oz referred to John Brooks, Deputy Administrator and Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer, and Inmaculada "Inma" Hernandez, Senior Advisor to the Administrator for Drug Prices, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and Acting Deputy General Counsel Beth Kelley of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Doustdar referred to David Moore, executive vice president of U.S. operations, and Karsten Munk Knutsen, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Novo Nordisk. A reporter referred to former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, who died on November 3. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on November 20.