In an Oval Office event on Oct. 16, meant to showcase the Trump administration’s new push to “make IVF affordable for all,” Dr. Mehmet Oz managed to prove that arithmetic is apparently the real endangered science in Washington.
While announcing “discounted” prices on IVF drugs under the Trump administration’s so-called most-favored-nation deal, Oz proudly told reporters that one of the most prescribed drugs in the category, made by MD Serrano, is now “discounted from $242 to $10.” But in trying to boast of the numbers, he turned the moment into a public math emergency. “I don’t know what the math is on that. We can’t even calculate it. It’s too high to calculate,” he said. So, basic math is now partisan.
