Did Voldemort just score a great deal with drug companies?

The Dark Lord does a lot of dumb/evil stuff. This isn't that. This is smart. Very smart.

BTW, so was operation Warp Speed (during his first time) which created a public private partnership to develop the COVID vaccine. Voldemort is very evil except when he's not.

Trump signs drug-pricing deals with nine more pharma companies under most-favored-nation push

Quartz News

Sept 1, 2026

President Trump announced a new round of most-favored-nation drug-pricing agreements Monday, adding nine companies — including Astellas, Teva, Sun Pharmaceutical, BridgeBio, CSL and UCB — to a framework that already covers 17 of the world's largest drugmakers. Under the deals, the new signatories have agreed to offer medicines to state Medicaid programs at prices comparable to what patients pay in other developed countries. Trump described the discounts as substantial, noting that U.S. patients currently pay nearly three times more for prescription drugs than their counterparts abroad.

The new agreements build on earlier deals with major manufacturers including Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Amgen, which agreed to cut prices for federal health programs, sell some medicines directly to patients through a Trump-branded website, and received tariff relief in return. Smaller and midsized drugmakers had been slower to join the framework, making Monday's additions a meaningful expansion.

For investors, the deals signal continued executive pressure on drug pricing even without congressional action, keeping reimbursement risk elevated for the sector. Watch whether the administration accelerates enrollment of additional mid-tier companies and whether the tariff relief component influences broader pharma trade negotiations.