What a fucking joke of a country... It's absurdity beyond satire.
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He added, “We want the same prices Europe gets, we want the same prices other country gets.”
Europeans pay very little for healthcare because they use a system designed to provide affordable healthcare and not to enrich the wealthy...
Here in the States, we call that system communism.
Better Red than dead!
Fuck the EDF!
sorry Red Faction: Guerrilla has irrevocably changed my associations of certain phrases. Damn good game also my first PS3 game.
"We want the benefits without the 'communism', please and thank you." -Capitalism-brained Americans
It's a single entity that buys all the drugs and distributes it out where it's needed. It's called buying power and is very effective in negotiating a deal. They also allow generic drugs in most cases, so the patients and hospitals have options and are not held for ransom by big pharma.
"But if the "single entity" does not buy enough (because the government cut the budget), THEN PEOPLE DIE!" - something I vaguely remember from debates one time the US considered possibly offering something approaching centralized health care.
I don't know how the fuck it works. I assume the "single entity" just buys more and the government doesn't cut the budget?
A real country informa a pharmaceutical what they will pay per dose for certain drugs, and if no company will agree then they will open their own labs to produce the drugs at cost. Free marker capitalism is incompatible with human decency
I guess I need to contact my pharmacy and find out where my check is for the drugs. According to Trump they owe me a lot of money.
MAGA supporters will believe him because they don’t understand percentages.
Trump cannot and will not lower drug prices. That's just another lie... Oh, how about the Eppstein files? He could certainly publish those, but he won't for obvious reasons – almost as obvious as the reasons for not lowering drug prices.
Well he certainly cannot lower them 1500%
But he certainly can raise prices by 1500% once this pedo thing is over — probably a Freudian slip — he will probably do everything humanly possible to increase prices by that percentage since the lobby offered him and his cronies good terms.
Ok, but what about 1499%?
Oh, this ISN’T the onion.
This guy needs to be in a home, this is not healthy behaviour.
Edit: are they trying to say a 33% drop?
Yeah, it's true. I just went to get my son's inhaler, and the pharmacy paid me 14 times what I normally pay them for it. Thank you, Mr. President.
Fucking what? Am I going to receive a check for hundreds of dollars next time I pick up my Adderall?
He's so fucking stupid it makes my head hurt.
You’re missing a zero. $14,000 in your pocket.
Get used to it. Trump is gonna give us all a 15x rebate on medications! 🙄
Google search trends identifies concerning uptick in “how to give yourself cancer” as a search term.
Lol.
I grew up in the 90s. If someone had told me America was roughly 20 years out from letting a felon rapist pedophile roll over the U.S. while it just stood by and watched I simply would have dismissed it as absurd.
Such a comically pathetic nation.
You grew up with clinton and Bush and didnt quite see a trend there?
In their defense I don't think most people knew what trends to look for since such skills are attached to historical literacy the long suffering child of the humanities. History ain't boring the way it's taught in elementary, middle, and highschool is shit, rather than focusing on the push and pull of history, society, culture, and economics they focus on ye olde facts that have the same general depth as one of my ancestor trade ledgers. There's a tale in said facts but it takes a good bit of skill to weave it back together.
You know how in the Final Destination movies, when someone escapes death, then death incessantly tries to take them by other means.
COVID was supposed to take a lot of old people, but we wore masks.
wtf does this even mean and how does he or any of his sycophants think this could possibly be implemented outside of a command economy?
Guess we’re getting a command economy, everyone. Hold on to your butts.
I’m sure they’ll blame the “socialists” and “communists” when it doesn’t work.
The full article on Forbes gives some terms more or less guaranteeing that companies will simply stop distributing in the US. Or raise global pricing to match US levels.
So you go to the pharmacy and they give you a pile of adderal and, like $2000? Way better than socialism.
If y’all thought you had an illegal immigrant problem before, lemme tell ya…
So now they pay people absurd amounts to take drugs?
Well, MAGA followers can't do the math any better than trump himself. My thoughts .... two months from now drug prices went up, the difference flows to DJT and his inner circle while MAGA celebrate the new prices
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