Senate Majority Leader John Thune says that President Trump’s Executive Order lowering Prescription Drug prices by 30-80% is “fairly controversial” if passed by Congress. In other words, they might not codify it. They might want Americans to pay ten times more for drugs than the rest of the world. These are drugs that US companies create.
The politicians get huge donations from Big Pharma. That influence over politicians would be gone:
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Politicians might prefer to see Americans suffer because they can’t afford medications, as the US subsidizes drugs for the world.
The US is 4% of the world’s population and pays 75% of Big Pharma’s revenue.
President Trump’s executive order aims to cut prescription drug costs deeply. The order demands favored nation drug pricing and the end of freeloading.
Republican lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) and Senate GOP Whip John Barrasso (Wyo.), have warned in the past that directing the federal government to set drug prices will slow innovation and limit patients’ access to lifesaving therapies.
Now they’re in the tough position of having to respond to Trump’s latest move, which would cut deeply into pharmaceutical companies’ profits.
Big Pharma contributes big bucks to politicians of both parties. Big Pharma will say that it will drastically cut R&D, endangering lives. However, what endangers lives is not being able to afford life-saving drugs. They will just have to accept reduced profits.
The drug industry set up a progressive system, mostly something Democrats pushed, but both parties accepted. They keep saying we are so rich while we face an existential financial collapse due to extraordinary debt and unsustainable interest rates.
As long as Americans can’t afford drugs they need, we are not rich enough for this system.
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That is exactly why they won’t codify it. They’ll endure it until they can get a judge to say it’s illegal or revoke it when the next president is elected. A lot of people in this country think the politicians work for us, so wrong and so sad.
If America was a serious nation (pssst. it has not been for a long time) it would publicly behead any Congressperson who was found to be on the take by a foreign nation or a corporation. Literally overnight, there would be no more corrupt grifting Senators like Thume and Barasso (and the other 500 plus in DC)
Pharma has too much influence.
I’d like to see RINOs come out and state their positions.
Most favored nation pricing is not price fixing. It is price aggregation; spreading the research costs across all nations rather than heavily burdening the U.S. middle class tax base.
Notice how they try to invert reality.
REinvent
Sounds like the GOP will, once again, lose out for the same reason they lost Georgia last time.
Research cuts are always the “sky’s gonna fall” fear mongering that pharmaceuticals use to justify their high costs. But the proof is in their profit making. And there is one other piece of this scam nobody is talking about. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH IS HEAVILY FUNDED BY GOVERNMENT GRANTS!!! So American taxpayers fund the research then pay through the teeth for the… Read more »
Pharma likes the way we pay at both ends. And in many cases, the drugs produced are junk. We paid many billions for the covid poison. The jab caused “long covid” which makes them much more money too.
Which actually makes them Big Harma!
I’m pretty sure I can live better without “lifesaving therapies” like mRNA.