Trump signs executive order setting 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower prescription drug costs (Poll)

[dblack]

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The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags for drugs over the next month. If deals are not reached, Kennedy will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties the price the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.
“We’re going to equalize,” Trump said during a Monday morning press conference. “We’re all going to pay the same. We’re going to pay what Europe pays.”

Not denial, a negotiation, that is what Trump said, ye I know Trump keeps his promises.

Sure, sure. It's all good. Heil, comrade.

 

[kyzr]

#2 Is setting a ceiling price.

No, the drug companies can set any price they want. We all pay that same price.

#3 End the patent protection and allow competition.

No. There would be no research if there is no 17-year patent protection.

 

[skye]

 

[dblack]

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Nope. Just a free market. We're not socialists.

 

[skye]

 

[dblack]

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Do you remember when there were conservatives in the Republican party?

 

[candycorn]

It just doesn't matter to me.

Its a good thing I didn’t ask you then.

 

[AZrailwhale]

they did do it...35$ cap for insulin....

Except I don’t think it ever went into effect, my copay for a vial of insulin is more than that, and when I wanted to purchase a vial of Humalog last month as a spare for my wife, because the insurance company refuses to fill prescriptions ahead of time instead of at the last minute when she only has a few days left on hand, I was quoted over four hundred dollars a vial retail.

 

[JWBooth]

Do you remember when there were conservatives in the Republican party?

I remember lots of rhetoric, decades of rhetoric, and support/votes for never slowing growth in government.

 

[skye]

 

[the watcher]

I think we need to decide if we like capitalism, where the market determines the price of goods and labor, or communism, where the state sets prices and wages. This having Congress, the courts, and now the President picking winners and losers (while enjoying insider trading benefits) isn't very reliable.

 

[dblack]

I think we need to decide if we like capitalism, where the market determines the price of goods and labor, or communism, where the state sets prices and wages. This having Congress, the courts, and now the President picking winners and losers (while enjoying insider trading benefits) isn't very reliable.

Yup. Say it again.

 

[the watcher]

If the state can set minimum wages, what is to stop them from setting maximum wages?

 

[dblack]

If the state can set minimum wages, what is to stop them from setting maximum wages?

I'm sure there's a draft bill somewhere.

 

[sartre play]

This administration is not very old, cant see where its going yet.
Only a few actual bills have been passed.
They can say what they want to happen, but until a bill is passed, its just political party talk.

 

[hadit]

Big Pharma will oppose this and probably sue the administration. Democrats will side with Big Pharma

Another masterful political stroke by Orange Man that will put the democrats once again in the position of defending the wildly unpopular. And they will, because TDS requires it.

 

[sartre play]

An executive order is not a bill, You can say anything for political gain.
We will have to wait and see how this evolves into and actual passed bill.
To know if it is for most Americans benefit.

 

[dblack]

An executive order is not a bill, You can say anything for political gain.
We will have to wait and see how this evolves into and actual passed bill.
To know if it is for most Americans benefit.

We have to pass it to see what's in it.