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Americans have struggled for years with high health insurance premiums and high drug prices. To ease that burden, the Trump administration has focused its efforts on promoting price transparency, tackling fraud, negotiating lower drug prices, and ending Obamacare subsidies.

One of the first things President Trump did to combat these issues was sign the “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” executive order. This order requires providers to provide exact amounts instead of estimates, directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury to ensure compliance, and expands reporting requirements to include clinical diagnostic labs, imaging centers, and ambulatory surgical centers. In doing so, the administration enforces rules first put in place during President Trump’s first term.

On the fraud front, the White House recently announced that Vice President JD Vance will lead a new anti-fraud task force to root out Medicaid fraud with the help of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz. The task force has already found success by suspending 70 hospice and home health providers in Los Angeles alone.

The task force has also focused on Minnesota and is withholding over $259 million in federal Medicaid matching funds due to the state’s lack of policing fraud. But instead of working with the administration to tackle the fraud—as Florida, Texas, and South Carolina have done—the state of Minnesota has sued the administration to block the funding freeze. This is par for the course for Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz’s failed leadership. Soon-to-be former Gov. Walz decided not to run for reelection after investigative journalist Nick Shirley exposed a billion-dollar Somali daycare fraud scheme.

The administration is addressing the global disparity in prescription drug costs. For years, United States citizens have been forced to subsidize the rest of the developed world by paying much higher prices for prescription drugs. To put an end to this madness, the administration launched Trump Prescription RX, a prescription drug discount website, this past February. They achieved this by negotiating Most Favored Nation (MFN) pricing with major pharmaceutical companies to offer discounts on many widely used drugs. This approach aligns drug prices with the lowest prices in the developed world.

Obamacare subsidies expiring earlier this year exposed the system for the Ponzi scheme it truly is. These subsidies funneled money to giant health insurers to artificially manipulating the cost of insurance. To fix this, the White House unveiled the Great American Healthcare Plan. The plan would give money directly to the American people, empowering them to make their own healthcare decisions.

The Trump administration’s efforts are already bearing fruit, lowering costs for millions while bringing justice to the fraudsters who have long exploited the system. We at Save Our States applaud these actions and have launched our own website to encourage lawmakers to support the administration.