TrumpRx isn't doing much for drug prices. What would it take to change that?

Americans are furious about drug prices.

Americans are furious about drug prices. The Trump administration’s answer? A new website.

But more than a month after its launch, the site, TrumpRx.gov, remains small — offering discounts on just 54 prescription drugs. Many of those drugs already have cheaper generic versions or savings programs available elsewhere, and the discounts can’t be used with insurance or count toward a deductible. Awareness of the site remains limited.

Whether TrumpRx actually lowers drug prices matters in ways that go beyond the success of the website itself. For President Donald Trump, it’s tied to a broader push on health care costs as the midterms approach. But for many Americans, the issue taps into something deeper — years of frustration with a system they say feels stacked against them, where prices are hard to track and it’s not always clear if they’re getting a fair deal.

Health policy experts say that what the administration does next will determine whether TrumpRx remains just another option or evolves into something that actually helps make prescription drug costs easier to navigate.

“The idea isn’t exactly new, but it does have sort of that Trump branding,” said Audrey Kearney, a senior survey analyst at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. “It’s another option for consumers, and we’ll kind of have to stay tuned to see if it’ll make a real difference.”