Trump and Kennedy Double Down on Incorrect Math Claims
President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have continued to assert mathematically inaccurate claims regarding percentage reductions in prescription drug prices. Trump has stated his policies could reduce prices by as much as 600 percent, a figure Kennedy attempted to justify by comparing a price drop from $600 to $100 as a 600 percent saving. This assertion, however, is mathematically impossible, as a reduction cannot exceed 100 percent of an item’s original value.
John Q. Hosedrinker