Comment on Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80%

• Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will take you at face value.

  This is complete bullshit, amounting to absolutely nothing. The companies that profit from selling us drugs will not just sit by idly while their profits dwindle. They spend billions of dollars on lawyers (to say nothing of buying politicians) and they will challenge the EO in court. It is plainly above and beyond the powers granted to the Executive in Article 2. They will win. This is nothing more than the worthless, fevered, narcissistic daydream of a grandiose cunt who cares not one whit for the common man.

  FUCK, I can’t believe this is our fucking reality.

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  • WorldwideCommunity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It seems like you want to be angry at Trump no matter what he does without actually understanding what the actual problem is and when someone asks you to explain you treat them with hostility. So here is what is dangerous about Trumps Pharma tariffs (so you can actually articulate your rage). The order proposes that the US be given Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status – meaning drug companies would be asked to match the lowest price for a drug abroad when selling to US consumers. www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/…/ar-AA1EDZ1S The thorn in that rose is that Big Pharma will simply raise their prices abroad to compensate for the loss of profit in America - essentially f^cking over every other nation on earth who will now have to pay more for life saving drugs, that includes nations who are so poor that drugs are heavily subsidized just so people don’t die in the thousands. There will now epidemics because there will be no one who can afford basic medicine. In the end Covid19 may end up being a holiday compared to what we might yet see.

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    • Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Your condescension is what I’d expect from a MAGAt. The problem I have with this is that it is utter showmanship horseshit. Take your sanctimony off to someone else (please interpret that as the euphemism it is).

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      • WorldwideCommunity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Wow if you actually put down the pipe you would realize I was helping you and no, I’m not a Trump supporter. I tried to help you by giving you an actual argument against Trump foolish executive order instead of your ‘f^ck you’ copy/paste replies. I guess it’s easier to be angry at everyone who you don’t like rather than actually express what makes you angry.

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  • PigStyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So executive orders are more just instructions? They don’t hold any real power, or is it just more the fact that it can be openly fought by anyone? Guessing I don’t fully understand how the executive order system works.

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    • Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Executive orders hold as long as they aren’t overturned by one of the other 2 branches of govt. Congress can pass a law that’s contrary an EO and the prez can’t do shit (assuming the Senate has a veto-roof majority, 67 votes). The courts can also stay or overturn EOs if they’re found to be unconstitutional or in violation of laws. The next Prez can completely upend any standing EOs.

      www.americanbar.org/groups/…/executive_orders/

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      • PigStyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Kk, well with that info, yes I would have to agree. This feels like a very empty gesture.

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