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by sxp 133 days ago
> "White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site..."

> "The site is not selling drugs directly to American patients..."

Just another layer of middlemen. They should go with the proper free market option and allow Americans to buy medication from other countries.

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How could the Trump family then directly benefit from it?
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/trumprx-delayed-as-se...

    There’s already reason to be suspicious of conflicts of interest with TrumpRx, the senators note. There’s a “potential relationship between TrumpRx and an online dispensing company, BlinkRx, on whose Board the President’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., has sat since February 2025,” the senators write.
Ego. Brand. But there is likely some financial angle buried in the plans somewhere.