President Trump Taking On Prescription Drugs

It would be a far more productive effort if the thread title didn’t include the word “on.”

 

And "prescription" probably.

 

Let me know when he starts building a wall around pharmaceutical companies to keep drugs out.

 

here is a link

… Trump said the administration will take on the "tangled web of special interests," pointing to the drug lobby …​

Sounds like he is setting himself up for failure.

 

Oh the irony in this thread already. It’s expected though.

 

If he can do anything, good on him. That said, I don't believe for a second that his answers will be anything other than removing consumer protections.

 

Biotech and pharmaceutical stocks are way up this afternoon. Wall Street knows that he’s not really going to do anything meaningful here.

 

So the way to lower drug prices in the US is to force other countries to raise theirs?

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...n-for-high-u-s-drug-prices-idUSKBN1IC2C0?il=0

He thinks he can stick it to hospitals and benefits managers and leave the Big Pharma donors happy. And yeah, their investors are thrilled this afternoon. Customers are on their own.

Plan manager to patient: we don't carry that YZY drug any more in your tier and there's no generic yet, tell your doctor usually patients can take a drug called XYZ instead and perhaps he can prescribe that for you, it's not much older than YZY and only has a few bad side effects, thank you for choosing TheBestDrugPlanAround and have a nice day.

 

Until there's direct negotiations for Medicare Rx, prices will continue to be high and rise steeply every year.

 

I’m sure he’ll battle the pharmaceutical mafia by giving them a tax cut. That’ll show them!

 

And fewer regulations. A few hundred thousand deaths due to improperly trialed drugs will surely open up some much-needed jobs in the country.

So much winning...

 

Even if he manages that, hell freezes over before a single cent of that extra money end in price reductions in the US.

I'm still waiting for Trump to "fix" one of the US' problems in the the US instead of deflecting onto other countries simply for not being as broken as the US......

 

Fixed a missing bold there. That is pie in the sky and Trump knows it. And... "available", sure... if the customer has the dough. Leaving the middlemen in there is not a solution. Trump doesn't want to try to take on the insurance companies, eh? Do we not think the benefits managers already tried to get the price down on the drugs they mark up to sell us? Where's the wiggle room for any more of that if Trump starts messing with tiers and "having all approved drugs available"?

 

The non result of this hot air should show everybody how ineffectual our government is for the greater good of the people. Nobody is pro drug addiction, but I’m sure both parties will pay a handful of "experts" to be pro drug addiction and the major news networks will give them as much air times as they need to make sense.

 

This is the stuff I want Trump to do.

Take on Big Pharma.

Reform the student loan system.

Write an executive order on marijuana to start the motion to remove it from Schedule I.

An infrastructure bill to put us on the level that China is at.

Reform the Veteran's Administration.

Deporting illegals who steal American jobs.

Stuff like this. Not bombing Assad or tax cuts for the rich.

 

Yeah, just what we need from the purveyor of Trump U.

 

Talk about pie in the sky.......

 

If you were to unwind all the petroleum subsidies, expect fuel prices in the twelve dollar range, which would, at least initially, hit lower and middle class people really hard. If we had decent public transportation and/or a healthy electric car presence, you could get away with it, but as of today, nine-tenths of the country would not be happy with such a move.

 

Oh yeah and Trump could actually be ACTUALLY pro-environment, not fake pro-environment like Bernie Sanders, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, etc. etc.

I didn't vote for Trump for tax cuts and bombing Syria. So this is a good step for him to be anti-Establishment.

 

What he says != what he ends up doing