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

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• Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am so sick of his bullshit. Every one of his voters should be pushed to the margins of society.

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  • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You think drugs should cost more for Americans?

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    • Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think fucking congress should pass bills instead of a fucking useless traitor cunt showman bullshitting us. Also, fuck off.

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    • kevin2107@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dumbass listen, this won’t work. It has to pass congress and senate both which he controls both which will shoot it down.

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  • PigStyle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can you explaine how this is not a positive for the middle lower class? I may be missing something here, but over all it seams like it would be a good thing?

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    • Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do you think this is actually going to lead to anything? Under what circumstances do you imagine the president is vested with the power to price consumer goods? What do you think is actually going to happen here? With one stroke of his fucking sharpie people will have affordable drugs???

      How could you - how could anyone - think he works for the average American?

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think we can say this will be a positive for the middle class because there’s absolutely no actual plan for implementation here

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World,” Trump said. “Our Country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens Healthcare Costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United States will save TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”

  The president doesn’t have the power to unilaterally dictate pharmaceutical prices. The federal government has some power to set the prices paid by Medicare/Medicaid recipients, but let’s be very clear that reform in this regard has been blocked by Republicans for decades. When the Biden Admin did it for just a handful of medications, the screeching was deafening.

  Anyway, my point is that as usual, this is bluster with no actual implementable policy behind it

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  • Jesusaurus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But… but… This was the half-assed master plan to replace Obamacare that they finally thought of! It’ll definitely work! … right?

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  • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Someone will have to fight it in court. Presidents have done this for a very long time but I do agree. It isn’t a power they have but nobody challenges it

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Presidents have done this for a long time?” Name one and what they did

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It sounds like the government is negotiating pharmaceutical prices for all Americans. Can they do other aspects of the healthcare system too or is that socialized healthcare?

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  • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They could and it has nothing to do with socialized healthcare. Peopel throw around the word socialism as if it doesn’t have a meaning.

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• Alice@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pharmacy gunna be owing me money nah mean lol

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  • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I am not a huge fan of price controls but drug companies need some rails as they shouldn’t charge Americans more then other countries.

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    • Alice@hilariouschaos.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Agreed

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    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You know what would really do that? What would ACTUALLY do that?

      Single-payer healthcare, AKA socialized medicine. Then you have the gov’t negotiating the price for ALL drugs for EVERYONE. That is exactly how every other first-world country does it, and that’s the reason why they all pay lower prices. Until 2022, with the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare wasn’t allowed to negotiate, and the IRA only allows the gov’t to negotiate some very high-dollar drugs.

      And executive order does abso-fucking-lutely nothing. EOs can–at best–only directly affect gov’t agencies. You can’t use an EO to force a private corporation to give you better prices.

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