Oz was on Friday's episode of The Situation Room with Brown and her co-anchor Wolf Blitzer to talk about TrumpRx, a website operated by the Department of Health and Human Services that launched this week, delayed from a planned rollout in January over anti-kickback worries and other concerns about its legality. Among the medicines listed on the site for direct sale are drugs to treat diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure as well as weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound (prescribed for diabetes patients as the brand names Ozempic and Mounjaro, respectively).
And when any White House experiences a humiliating defeat. And believe me, I've been part of those, the instinct is often most of the time to change the subject. I mean, roll out a new policy, hold a big event, make any announcement of any kind, basically to get people to talk about anything other than the absolute shellacking that you just took at the polls.