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Cost of UK’s drug price deal with US will come out of NHS budget

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Veserr@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/04/cost-of-uks-drug-price-with-us-will-come-out-of-nhs-budget

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So dumb. Why aren’t you just making your own drugs in the UK? You’d think that relying on foreign countries for your health supplies would be a national security issue.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Cost to setup and then compete, you have to make concessions if you’ve dismantled your entire manufacturing capacity decades ago

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  • Senal@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “The timetable for the planned forced dissolution of the NHS and following privatisation has been moved up due to new opportunities in creatively assigning financial burdens.”

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