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

[dblack]

That was solidified when Obama bailed all those floundering corporations out. They are now permanently indebted to the government. In a sense the government now owns them and they own the government. Almost like they're conjoined twins.

We went through this same thing with religion. It took us hundreds of years to figure out that combining the power of the Church with the power of the state was a REALLY BAD IDEA. Theocracy simply put too much power in too few hands.

Now there's a movement to merge economic power with the power of the state. And it comes from both the government and the business sector. Leaders from both realize that they can radically increase their power by joining forces.

 

[Unkotare]

Superior Commoners Are Born in the Dugout and Made to Believe They Are Benched

Hereditary ownership contradicts and crashes Capitalism. Nepos and their knee-huggers collapse the economy from the top down.

HeirHeads are pre-positioned halfway to the finish line. "Even playing field" is impossible under unearned birth privileges and class-climbing no-talent yes-men.

And the broken record plays on...

 

[Slyhunter]

Maybe this isn't price control in the stricter sense, but it is still an instance of a president telling private businesses what to do.

You mean like Biden freezing drilling permits? And souped up regs keeping them from building more Refineries?

 

[Slyhunter]

Nah. Pretty much any time someone bloviates about a "level playing field" they're talking about government intervention in the market. You can still call that "capitalism", if you want. But it's not a free market. Wage and price controls have always been considered transitional policies - inroads - toward socialism.

And what is charging America 10x Plus what they charge other countries called?

 

[Slyhunter]

Free shit!!!

Why are we subsidizing other countries low prices by being charged more for the same thing?

 

[Slyhunter]

It's different when we do it!!!

Whose team are you on?

 

[Slyhunter]

Superior Commoners Are Born in the Dugout and Made to Believe They Are Benched

Hereditary ownership contradicts and crashes Capitalism. Nepos and their knee-huggers collapse the economy from the top down.

HeirHeads are pre-positioned halfway to the finish line. "Even playing field" is impossible under unearned birth privileges and class-climbing no-talent yes-men.

Parents are supposed to kick their kids out at 18 years old and not help them? What are parents supposed to do with their money then, give it to their Government?

Everybody since America has been created and before that since the caveman days work to provide their children better lives than they themselves had. Parents are supposed to be deprived of that ideal just because they're rich?

 

[dblack]

And what is charging America 10x Plus what they charge other countries called?

Charging what the market will bear.

 

[dblack]

Whose team are you on?

My country's "team".

 

[dblack]

Why are we subsidizing other countries low prices by being charged more for the same thing?

Because we're over-insured.

 

[Nobody911]

It's about time.

MxM News: Trump orders drugmakers to match lowest global prices

Trump orders drugmakers to match lowest global prices

mxmnews.com

On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at slashing prescription drug prices by requiring pharmaceutical companies to offer Americans the lowest prices they charge anywhere in the world.

Key Details:

The executive order instructs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allow Americans to purchase drugs directly from manufacturers at "Most-Favored-Nation" prices, bypassing costly middlemen.

If pharmaceutical companies refuse, the order directs HHS to impose rules mandating most-favored-nation pricing and to use "other aggressive measures" to end anticompetitive practices.

Is it that America is happy first, or that the rest of the world is unhappy first? What a policy! lol.

Here is a list of third-world or developing countries that could be affected by shifts in global drug pricing due to policies like Trump’s 2025 US drug-pricing plan. These countries are generally classified as low- or middle-income nations with less-developed industrial bases and healthcare infrastructure:

Africa

-Angola

-Benin

-Botswana

-Burkina Faso

-Burundi

-Cabo Verde

-Cameroon

-Central African Republic

-Chad

-Comoros

-Congo (Republic and Democratic Republic)

-Côte d'Ivoire

-Djibouti

-Equatorial Guinea

-Eritrea

-Eswatini

-Ethiopia

-Gabon

-Gambia

-Ghana

-Guinea

-Guinea-Bissau

-Kenya

-Lesotho

-Liberia

-Madagascar

-Malawi

-Mali

-Mauritania

-Mauritius

-Mozambique

-Namibia

-Niger

-Nigeria

-Rwanda

-São Tomé and Príncipe

-Senegal

-Sierra Leone

-Somalia

-South Sudan

-Sudan

-Tanzania

-Togo

-Uganda

-Zambia

-Zimbabwe

Asia and Pacific

-Afghanistan

-Bangladesh

-Bhutan

-Cambodia

-China (classified as emerging market)

-Fiji

-India (emerging market)

-Indonesia (emerging market)

-Iran

-Iraq

-Kyrgyzstan

-Laos

-Maldives

-Myanmar

-Nepal

-Pakistan

-Philippines

-Sri Lanka

-Timor-Leste

-Vietnam

Middle East and East Mediterranean

-Syria

-Yemen

Americas (Latin America and Caribbean)

-Belize

-Bolivia

-Colombia

-Costa Rica

-Cuba

-Dominican Republic

-Ecuador

-El Salvador

-Guatemala

-Haiti

-Honduras

-Jamaica

-Mexico (emerging market)

-Nicaragua

-Panama

-Paraguay

-Peru

-Suriname

Other notable emerging markets often grouped with developing countries:

-Brazil

-Russia

-South Africa

-Turkey

These countries are identified from multiple sources listing developing countries as of 2025 134579. Many are classified as low- or middle-income economies by the World Bank and other international bodies.

Because pharmaceutical companies may raise drug prices or restrict access in these markets to offset lower US prices, populations in these countries could face higher healthcare costs or reduced availability of new medicines under the US drug-pricing plan.

sources:
1. https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/...ship/Developing Countries List 2025.01.13.pdf
2. Developing Countries 2025
3. https://cdn.asp.events/CLIENT_ACMG_...ents/List-of-Developing-Countries-2025-AM.pdf
4. Developing Countries List - Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences
5. https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/list-developing-countries.pdf
6. https://windrosecg.com/posts/emerging-markets-series-topic-3
7. https://www.entsoc.org/developing-countries-list
8. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5717296/
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country
10. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10680326/

 

[Edgetho]

Is it that America is happy first, or that the rest of the world is unhappy first? What a policy! lol.

Here is a list of third-world or developing countries that could be affected by shifts in global drug pricing due to policies like Trump’s 2025 US drug-pricing plan. These countries are generally classified as low- or middle-income nations with less-developed industrial bases and healthcare infrastructure:

Africa

-Angola

-Benin

-Botswana

-Burkina Faso

-Burundi

-Cabo Verde

-Cameroon

-Central African Republic

-Chad

-Comoros

-Congo (Republic and Democratic Republic)

-Côte d'Ivoire

-Djibouti

-Equatorial Guinea

-Eritrea

-Eswatini

-Ethiopia

-Gabon

-Gambia

-Ghana

-Guinea

-Guinea-Bissau

-Kenya

-Lesotho

-Liberia

-Madagascar

-Malawi

-Mali

-Mauritania

-Mauritius

-Mozambique

-Namibia

-Niger

-Nigeria

-Rwanda

-São Tomé and Príncipe

-Senegal

-Sierra Leone

-Somalia

-South Sudan

-Sudan

-Tanzania

-Togo

-Uganda

-Zambia

-Zimbabwe

Asia and Pacific

-Afghanistan

-Bangladesh

-Bhutan

-Cambodia

-China (classified as emerging market)

-Fiji

-India (emerging market)

-Indonesia (emerging market)

-Iran

-Iraq

-Kyrgyzstan

-Laos

-Maldives

-Myanmar

-Nepal

-Pakistan

-Philippines

-Sri Lanka

-Timor-Leste

-Vietnam

Middle East and East Mediterranean

-Syria

-Yemen

Americas (Latin America and Caribbean)

-Belize

-Bolivia

-Colombia

-Costa Rica

-Cuba

-Dominican Republic

-Ecuador

-El Salvador

-Guatemala

-Haiti

-Honduras

-Jamaica

-Mexico (emerging market)

-Nicaragua

-Panama

-Paraguay

-Peru

-Suriname

Other notable emerging markets often grouped with developing countries:

-Brazil

-Russia

-South Africa

-Turkey

These countries are identified from multiple sources listing developing countries as of 2025 134579. Many are classified as low- or middle-income economies by the World Bank and other international bodies.

Because pharmaceutical companies may raise drug prices or restrict access in these markets to offset lower US prices, populations in these countries could face higher healthcare costs or reduced availability of new medicines under the US drug-pricing plan.

sources:
1. https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/Secretariat/membership/Developing Countries List 2025.01.13.pdf
2. Developing Countries 2025
3. https://cdn.asp.events/CLIENT_ACMG_...ents/List-of-Developing-Countries-2025-AM.pdf
4. Developing Countries List - Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences
5. https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/list-developing-countries.pdf
6. https://windrosecg.com/posts/emerging-markets-series-topic-3
7. https://www.entsoc.org/developing-countries-list
8. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5717296/
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country
10. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10680326/

Those places and people were unhappy, poor and stupid 2,000 years ago. And they'll be unhappy, poor and stupid 2,000 years from now.

Let Darwin work it out.

 

[Slyhunter]

My country's "team".

So you are butting in on our business. You don't get a vote if you're not American in America Elections. ie. you don't get a say..

 

[Slyhunter]

Because we're over-insured.

Who is we?

 

[Slyhunter]

Is it that America is happy first, or that the rest of the world is unhappy first? What a policy! lol.

Here is a list of third-world or developing countries that could be affected by shifts in global drug pricing due to policies like Trump’s 2025 US drug-pricing plan. These countries are generally classified as low- or middle-income nations with less-developed industrial bases and healthcare infrastructure:

Africa

-Angola

-Benin

-Botswana

-Burkina Faso

-Burundi

-Cabo Verde

-Cameroon

-Central African Republic

-Chad

-Comoros

-Congo (Republic and Democratic Republic)

-Côte d'Ivoire

-Djibouti

-Equatorial Guinea

-Eritrea

-Eswatini

-Ethiopia

-Gabon

-Gambia

-Ghana

-Guinea

-Guinea-Bissau

-Kenya

-Lesotho

-Liberia

-Madagascar

-Malawi

-Mali

-Mauritania

-Mauritius

-Mozambique

-Namibia

-Niger

-Nigeria

-Rwanda

-São Tomé and Príncipe

-Senegal

-Sierra Leone

-Somalia

-South Sudan

-Sudan

-Tanzania

-Togo

-Uganda

-Zambia

-Zimbabwe

Asia and Pacific

-Afghanistan

-Bangladesh

-Bhutan

-Cambodia

-China (classified as emerging market)

-Fiji

-India (emerging market)

-Indonesia (emerging market)

-Iran

-Iraq

-Kyrgyzstan

-Laos

-Maldives

-Myanmar

-Nepal

-Pakistan

-Philippines

-Sri Lanka

-Timor-Leste

-Vietnam

Middle East and East Mediterranean

-Syria

-Yemen

Americas (Latin America and Caribbean)

-Belize

-Bolivia

-Colombia

-Costa Rica

-Cuba

-Dominican Republic

-Ecuador

-El Salvador

-Guatemala

-Haiti

-Honduras

-Jamaica

-Mexico (emerging market)

-Nicaragua

-Panama

-Paraguay

-Peru

-Suriname

Other notable emerging markets often grouped with developing countries:

-Brazil

-Russia

-South Africa

-Turkey

These countries are identified from multiple sources listing developing countries as of 2025 134579. Many are classified as low- or middle-income economies by the World Bank and other international bodies.

Because pharmaceutical companies may raise drug prices or restrict access in these markets to offset lower US prices, populations in these countries could face higher healthcare costs or reduced availability of new medicines under the US drug-pricing plan.

sources:
1. https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/Secretariat/membership/Developing Countries List 2025.01.13.pdf
2. Developing Countries 2025
3. https://cdn.asp.events/CLIENT_ACMG_...ents/List-of-Developing-Countries-2025-AM.pdf
4. Developing Countries List - Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences
5. https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/list-developing-countries.pdf
6. https://windrosecg.com/posts/emerging-markets-series-topic-3
7. https://www.entsoc.org/developing-countries-list
8. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5717296/
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country
10. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10680326/

Countries that should not be subsidized by Americans. Our Ancestors did not work hard and sometimes die so we can just give away our tax payer's dollars to non-tax payers.

 

[dblack]

Who is we?

US health care consumers.

The reason health care, and drug, prices are so stupidly high is that there are no rational market dynamics. Via ill-conceived regulation and short sighted tax policy, we've pushed health care consumers into two types: those who have insurance, and don't care what their health care costs because they're not paying for it directly, and those who don't have health insurance and can only hope to get health care through some kind of charity or state welfare -- and don't care what their health care costs because they're not paying for it directlty.

So, virtually all health care consumers don't care what their health care costs because no one is paying for it directly. Of course prices are going through the roof. Why not?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

That was solidified when Obama bailed all those floundering corporations out. They are now permanently indebted to the government. In a sense the government now owns them and they own the government. Almost like they're conjoined twins.

Socialite Socialists

Communism is when the government owns all the businesses. Capitalism is when the businessmen all own the government. Same difference.

Plus, it should be no secret that Leftists are the sons of rich Rightists.

 

[Unkotare]

Socialite Socialists

Communism is when the government owns all the businesses. Capitalism is when the businessmen all own the government. Same difference.
....

Wrong, dumbass.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Countries that should not be subsidized by Americans. Our Ancestors did not work hard and sometimes die so we can just give away our tax payer's dollars to non-tax payers.

If it's good for Togo, it's good to go

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

We went through this same thing with religion. It took us hundreds of years to figure out that combining the power of the Church with the power of the state was a REALLY BAD IDEA. Theocracy simply put too much power in too few hands.

Now there's a movement to merge economic power with the power of the state. And it comes from both the government and the business sector. Leaders from both realize that they can radically increase their power by joining forces.

The Way to Perdition Is Patrician

The sacred cow of hereditary power is behind both institutions. So they can't be blamed, as one or the other usually is. Therefore, the institutions are scapegoats.