The plan won't be limited to Medicare prescriptions but will also target medications covered by Medicaid and private insurance. Weight-loss drugs are expected to be on the list.
  • 60d@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 天前

    What happened to 90%?

    50% of all your money is still too high!

  • the_q@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 天前

    Sweet. Now it’ll be even easier to have opioid crisis 2 electric bugaloo.

    • Nastybutler@lemmy.world
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      9 天前

      That’s the point. Grab headlines that make the public think he’s some benevolent leader, while in reality, this is a big nothingburger

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    9 天前

    Ooh, so now medication will only be 50 times more expensive than in Mexico, I’m sure that’ll stop Americans from medicine shopping in Mexico.

    Mexico should do something to stop that invasion of US citizens, they’re all sick and do nothing to improve the economy, they only buy medication, food, souvenirs, and then they leave only to return a few weeks later! This is an act of war, Mexico should build a wall!

    Please don’t make me add an /s here

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 天前

    Tank pharma companies stock, alert insider trading partners to buy, rescind EO.

    Taking bets now.

  • Tronn4@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 天前

    Let’s watch 47 come before the drug companies in a few days. Btw watch the stock market manipulation as he retreats from this threat and scurried back to business as usual

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 天前

    He’s an idiot and there are a number of obviously deliberate errors in his statements about this matter already, indicating that he is once again lying.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    Yeah. Just another BS decree that has no substance. The king saying “make it happen!” ans leaving the impossibility of it to others.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
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      8 天前

      Handwavey bullshit is not a solution. Trump is not a broken clock, he’s an anti-clock. If he’s doing it, you have 100% assurance that it’s wrong.

    • orclev@lemmy.world
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      9 天前

      While the goal might be correct, this isn’t going to do shit. This is a non-story, Trump is just redoing something he did in his first term already that failed. The headline is what Trump is after, this is just a PR move.

  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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    9 天前

    And the cost savings will likely go to the insurance companies… who I’m sure will pass those savings onto the consumer. 🙄

    • whyrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 天前

      Even if they do; if your employer “provides” the insurance they’ll take a cut of any cost savings :(

      • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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        9 天前

        As an employer at a small business yes, if I got a reduction in cost and I paid half, I’d split it with the employee. Since I pay all employee healthcare I’d get all the savings.

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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    9 天前

    by aligning what the government pays for certain medications to the prices paid in other countries.

    Big pharma will just raise the rate across the world, in some cases against the local country controls. So those govts will just authorise the use and manufacture of generics, like India did who invalidated copyrights, to bring down the costs. Next, big pharma will get generics banned in the US so back to square one with the high prices.