Fixing Drug Pricing with TJ Parker

Today on Tech Today, Eric is joined by TJ Parker, Founder of PillPack and Amazon Pharmacy, to break down the current state of drug pricing in the U.S. and the significance of Trump’s recent executive order on prescription drugs. TJ walks through the supply chain mechanics behind inflated out-of-pocket prices and explains why consumers often pay far more than insurers for the same drug.

They discuss how middlemen like PBMs distort prices, why rebates have made the system so opaque, and how a “most favored nation” pricing clause could finally give Americans access to net prices at the pharmacy counter. TJ also lays out what a consumer-first drug supply chain could look like—and why it might resemble a retail e-commerce experience more than anything else.

We also covered Uber’s new fixed-route commuter shuttles, GM’s next-gen battery chemistry, advances to Tesla’s Optimus, and Anthropic’s upcoming reasoning-first models.