Trump Hasn’t Lowered Drug Prices for These Voters
President Trump has been promoting his efforts to reduce drug prices, but many Americans have not seen relief from rising costs for prescriptions and insurance premiums.
Advertisement
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.
President Trump has been promoting his efforts to reduce drug prices, but many Americans have not seen relief from rising costs for prescriptions and insurance premiums.
Listen
· 10:12 min
Oct. 16, 2026
President Trump has said for months that his efforts to reduce drug prices should alone be enough for Republicans to win the midterm elections in November.
But the president’s initiatives have not brought financial relief for voters like James Evans, 37, a real estate agent who does not have insurance coverage for most prescription medicines. He said he worried that he was one bad diagnosis away from bankruptcy.
“I don’t see how this is going to affect most Americans on the daily,” Mr. Evans, who until last year was a registered Republican, said about Mr. Trump’s initiatives. He said health care costs continued to go up anyway.
“It doesn’t matter if a few drug prices go down,” he said, “if everything else goes up.”
Mr. Evans lives in Florida’s Seventh Congressional District, a fast-growing, Republican-leaning region in the northeast suburbs of Orlando, where the pain of rising health care costs is felt by a wide swath of voters.
Even more than in other parts of the country, many people in this district are sharply exposed to expenses for prescription drugs and health insurance. The district is home to many entrepreneurs, early retirees, and gig and service workers who cannot get insurance through an employer.
Those concerns came out in more than a dozen recent interviews with people in the district, as well as in door-to-door political canvassing and a town-hall congressional campaign event. Over and over, people said their expenses for prescriptions and insurance premiums were top of mind going into the election.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access.
Already a subscriber? Log in.
Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Advertisement
Originally published by nytimes.com. Syndicated material does not necessarily reflect the views of Glamour Canada.
