Dr. Oz Gets Math Completely Wrong After Being Grilled By NBC About Drug Prices

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 22nd, 2025, 7:45 pm


Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz confounded NBC News anchor Kristen Welker on Wednesday after he got the math completely wrong upon being grilled about President Donald Trump’s pharmaceutical price reform.

“The president has talked about lowering drug prices, pharmaceutical prices, and he’s repeatedly claimed that he could cut those prices by more than 100%,” said Welker during an interview on Meet the Press NOW, before playing a series of clips of Trump boasting about cutting drug prices “by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%.”

The NBC News anchor then questioned, “Cutting drug prices by 400%, anything over 100%, wouldn’t that effectively make them free? Is that a realistic goal from the president?” Welker’s math wasn’t quite right. Cutting drug prices by 100% would make them free, not “anything over 100%, which would imply the seller would pay people to “buy” their products.

Dr. Oz replied, “The president does the calculation by saying, ‘Okay, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100% cheaper because you’re taking $50 off and left with only $50, so the amount you took off the price is equal to the amount that’s left. They’re equal so it’s 100%.'” “He said 1,500%!” Welker pointed out. “In one of those, he said 1,500%.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/dr-oz-gets-math-completely-wrong-after-being-grilled-by-nbc-about-drug-prices/

[Javaman]

1. dr grift is a moron. nt

[bamagal62]

2. D.A.

[niyad]

14. ???

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Dumb ass? Maybe?

[bamagal62]

37. Yes

[littlemissmartypants]

38. Thanks. I was pretty sure it wasn't district attorney. ✊️🤓

[TheRickles]

3. So if a drug costs $100 and you cut the price by 50%, how much will it cost?

The guy went to med school but failed arithmetic.

[mwb970]

9. They call it "math" but it's really 5th-grade arithmetic.

Did MAGA morons even GO to school?

[niyad]

16. I could have sworn that I learned percentages before 5th grade, but

that was way back in the last millenium.

[mwb970]

27. I did too, but I was ahead of the game.

Don't worry, many of the others caught up.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Send the whole damn regime back to the 5th. grade to learn percentages.

[Doodles]

20. MAGA

Morons Are Governing America—MAGA.

[kerouac2]

5. I remember thinking how unqualified Rick perry was

For secretary of energy.

Our govt is being run by wholly unqualified people. One can only imagine how badly we are being attacked and manipulated covertly with this lot in charge. Other countries are generally smart enough to have smart people in charge of things.

These buffoons leave us so vulnerable.

[jaymac]

6. thank you, kerouac2

your comment...so true, so true.......and so depressingly sad.

[CTyankee]

19. but that's the point, right? They're showing you that government programs don't work for us so we should just depend on

private businesses to handle things. Privatize everything and everything will be just fine!

[FSogol]

7. Mediate will have their hands full if they are going to tell us every time, Dr Oz is wrong about something.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Oz has been in hiding

and I haven't heard his name mentioned in awhile. That's because brainworm is "in charge" and gives plenty of opportunity for the media to run hog wild.

[mwb970]

8. This is the intellectual level of MAGA morons.

In case you didn't know.

[Rowdyag]

11. is it any wonder that the economy is in the trash?

These fools can't get 5th grade arithmetic correct....I think economics is several bridges to far

[Hotler]

12. Five out of three people struggle with math.

[Attilatheblond]

30. Great bumper sticker potential there!

[maxrandb]

36. Calculus - The Agony and DX/DC

My daughter's Differential Equations teacher had that on a T-shirt.

[Hotler]

39. I like that.

[niyad]

13. JFC, it is too early in the morning to read such stupidity without a drink.

[Shipwack]

32. "Looks like I chose the wrong day to give up coffee!" nt

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

15. Thanks again, Oprah!

[Bluetus]

17. Fortunately we only have to wait 2 weeks

to see the actual price from Trump's big, beautiful heath care plan.

[70sEraVet]

18. Math is SOOO woke!

[Clouds Passing]

21. Working to create confusion about math.

[twodogsbarking]

22. I do mental math to fall asleep. It works and I am good at math. zero plus zero equals Oz.

[airplaneman]

34. But

Zero to the zero power is one
And
Zero factorial is one.
See zero is actually worth something.
-Airplane

[3Hotdogs]

23. To quote Jasmine Crockett, "The math ain't mathin'"

[3825-87867]

25. This is the idiocy we almost got in Pa.!

Instead, we got Fettermen!!!???
One of these things is 1500% not like the other;
One of this things is kinda 4000% the same.
Can you tell which one is not like the other,
Before we all go insane?

Ok boys and girls...if you picked they are the same, you lose anyway you choose.

[Polly Hennessey]

26. And this guy was a cardiac surgeon?

[Ziggysmom]

29. Holy Crap!

Did he have any patients besides Oprah who lived?

[travelingthrulife]

31. Let's hope the nurses calculated the drug doses

[IronLionZion]

28. MAGA are the best and brightest America has to offer

This is why MAGA likes to destroy education and research in America. They don't want people to know they are full of it.

[Shipwack]

33. Is he truly this stupid...

Or is he just peddling bullshit for the MAGA base to cling to?

I honestly don’t know.

[yardwork]

35. He's actually quite stupid.

[bcbink]

40. Time spent

He must have spent an incredible amount of time trying to figure out a way to agree with Drump. It probably is working for the intended audience.
It just sucks the life right out of me sometimes.