Trump fights pharmaceutical companies: ‘US must have lowest …

Pharmaceutical companies selling drugs in the US will have to do so at the lowest price in the world. That is what US President Trump states in a new plan to reduce costs for medical care. In the same breath, he added that the pharmaceutical companies have tried to thwart his election campaign.

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Trump announced two measures on Friday to save “billions of dollars” on healthcare. The first is to eliminate the ‘intermediaries’. The discounts that pharmaceutical companies are already giving are too often stuck with these ‘rich people’, Trump says. The elderly in particular would benefit from these lower costs reaching patients. That would save “hundreds or thousands” of dollars per patient.

From January 1, Trump also wants a ‘first nation rule’ to apply. This would oblige pharmaceutical companies to charge the lowest price for each drug they receive for the same drug elsewhere in the world. He expects that this will lower the price of some medicines by 70 to 80 percent. He did not indicate how he intends to force pharmaceutical companies to accept that lowest price.

Trump accused ‘Big pharma’ of abusing ‘Americans’ for’ generations. For example, the high price for insulin would have ‘destroyed families’. Trump argues that this drug should cost no more than $ 35 a month.

Elections

He immediately sneered that the pharmaceutical companies ‘invested millions’ in advertisements during the election campaign to smear him. “Elections I won, by the way,” he once again claimed victory in the election, even though Democratic candidate Joe Biden brought in enough electors to run for president in January.

Pfizer was only accused by Trump after the election of announcing that a corona vaccine had been found. “That might have had an impact, maybe not,” Trump said.

After that, Trump gave the floor to Alex Azar, health minister. At the end of the press conference, the president immediately disappeared from the podium. He no longer answered questions from the journalists present.

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