American patients first: Trump orders drugmakers to match lowest global prices

[Greenbeard]

I’m guessing the same people fell for this shit when Trump announced the exact same thing in his first term.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

they are so unrealistic and annoying...should be banned from advertising...

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Video of happy, smiling people.

Audio of, "This drug can kill you".

And they're not kidding!

I hope they will be banned from TV and magazine advertising. I worked in a medical support career for years and I vividly remember the first time I saw a pHARMa ad on TV -- thought it was an obscene joke.


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[toobfreak]

Trump is doing a fantastic job for Americans.

Amazing. Our drug companies make a drug, then charge us $10 a pill so we can subsidize selling it everywhere else to other countries for only $1 a pill.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

You operate as programmed.

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Look folks Veggie *Joe beat Medicare .

 

[1srelluc]

I hope kicking Big Pharma off the nation's airwaves is the next shoe to drop.

 

[Harry Dresden]

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Video of happy, smiling people.

Audio of, "This drug can kill you".

And they're not kidding!

I hope they will be banned from TV and magazine advertising. I worked in a medical support career for years and I vividly remember the first time I saw a pHARMa ad on TV -- thought it was an obscene joke.


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that wegovy one is pathetic.....all these people just drop everything and join all those zombies walking down the street....is that cultish or what?...

 

[22lcidw]

First off Congress needs to ban lobbying from big corporations, including pharma, and involving government never seems to turn out well, I can see work around, bigger companies get stronger, R&D going downhill, small pharmaceuticals going away. It seems government corrupts.

Lobbying is something that needs to be talked about in D.C. and to us the people.

 

[22lcidw]

I’m guessing the same people fell for this shit when Trump announced the exact same thing in his first term.

Progs always talk of doing something. And then don't.

 

[Greenbeard]

Progs always talk of doing something. And then don't.

Projection, per usual.

Trump in his first go-around:

Donald Trump says Medicare should negotiate drug prices
Trump to Drop Call for Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices
Democrats pass U.S. bill to lower drug prices that Trump threatens to veto

Subsequently, under his successor:

Biden urges Congress to pass reforms to lower prescription drug costs, change Medicare rule
Why Biden's Medicare drug price breakthrough is a 'BFD'
U.S. Announces First Drugs Picked for Medicare Price Negotiations
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Billions in Savings from Drug Price Negotiations

Always just talk and fake executive orders with Trump.

 

[Papageorgio]

Lobbying is something that needs to be talked about in D.C. and to us the people.

I agree, but I thought Obama and Biden promised they’d end that? lol!

 

[iamwhatiseem]

OBAMA - was the one that gave Big Pharma the price hike guarantees. He did it so they would sign on to Obamacare.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/obamacare-prescription-drugs-pharma-225444

 

[Missouri_Mike]

They got has no authority to regulate prices in the private sector.

Sure they do, not like you make it sound though. This price gouging on a global scale. That can be enforced.

 

[dblack]

Trump just repeats whatever the crackpot at the local dive says.

I agree, but I thought Obama and Biden promised they’d end that? lol!

As long as Congress has the power to destroy a business or industry with capricious regulation, businesses and industry will find a way to influence Congress.

 

[BackAgain]

Right on cue the lead cultist comes in to defend Big Pharma!

And he makes no sense in the process.

The topic isn’t really about “price controls.”

Boiled down, the question is going to be whether any President has any legal authority to issue an EO of this kind.

 

[dblack]

Boiled down, the question is going to be whether any President has any legal authority to issue an EO of this kind.

Do you think he should have that power? Do you think Congress should have that power?

 

[HikerGuy83]

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All the data you need is to watch TV and count the number of pHARMaceutical ads in one hour.


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Uh...no, I would want something like some financials.

Otherwise this is just a reactionary statement.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Good point, then what do we do? It talks about prices getting in alignment with other countries pricing, the US operational costs are higher than other countries, and also what about standards, some countries standards are lower than ours.

We often sell last generation drugs to other countries. I know that for many years, that was true in Canada. If you got cancer....you were not getting the most up to date. That is how they kept costs down.

 

[Blaster]

Trump is getting things done.

 

[BackAgain]

Do you think he should have that power? Do you think Congress should have that power?

It doesn’t matter what you or I think. The issue is what the Constitution says.

We all already know (or should know) that a President gets some powers delegated to him by Congress not created “law” but rather to ADMINISTER what Congress has authorized. And a President also has his own Constitutional authority on many matters. As to those matters, he can issue proclamations or orders as he deems appropriate (within the confines to f Constitutional authority).

My question is whether a Congressionally passed law delegates this matter to the Executive Branch. I know that arguments can be made — one way or the other. But I can’t identify what Constitutional granting authority covers this.

I’m willing to consider any such argument. But for now, I don’t see it.

 

[dblack]

It doesn’t matter what you or I think.

Sure it does. Do you think the President should have the power to dictate prices? I don't. And I think it's a mistake to let him get away with it. Regardless of how well it polls.