President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden aimed at finding new models for lowering drug costs. Trump's action didn't affect the caps on seniors' drug costs or Medicare price negotiations that Biden signed into law.

A provision about insulin in the Inflation Reduction Act is conflated with a 2022 executive order by former President Joe Biden on lowering prescription drug costs in posts online that suggest President Donald Trump has canceled the $35 insulin co-pay cap for certain Medicare programs.

“Rescinding the cap on insulin at $35 only makes pharmaceutical richer and everyday Americans, including MAGA voters, seriously poorer,” Steven Bechloss—author of the Substack, America, America — posted to the Bluesky social media platform.

Experts suggest that most Americans will not experience immediate changes in their out-of-pocket health care expenses.

The Trump administration’s first drug pricing action — rescinding a Biden executive order encouraging Medicare to help lower prescription costs — is befuddling drug pricing experts.

President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order rescinding Biden-era Medicare and Medicaid price innovation programs signals sweeping changes to the drug and treatment pricing agency within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and perhaps a substantive shake-up in two of the largest federal social welfare programs.