Well it either went one of two ways, either my government bent over and got the shaft from the US like always or we told them to go take a long jump off a short pier.
I’m not sure that they said that, but could you imagine the community backlash if our medicines all of sudden jumped significantly because the Orange Pedo said we had to…
People blame trump for everything, the real facts are this is a 2 party blame, don't you remember Obama care (a Democrat) that has skyrocketed insurance costs, driven up deductibles.
Let's put blame where it belongs Insurance, drug,medical industry that doesn't want change their making to much $
don't you remember Obama care (a Democrat) that has skyrocketed insurance costs
That's because this is a great case of corporate greed, not government push for that greed. The big problem was and still is that republicans are hell bent on preventing making actual universal healthcare a thing or even regulating price gouging by the insurance companies. All while they are willing to raise premiums when regulation is passed for them, when it's passed against them and when no regulation is passed at all.
Basically, you are blaming one of the billion excuses these companies have used for increases in premiums, when in reality they also raised premiums at every other possible opportunity. You are blaming a tape fix not working perfectly, when it's opposition is what prevented any actual regulation from being passed and has been since forever.
People blame trump for everything
In this case, they should. Trump was pushing a 100% tariff on pharmaceuticals imported to the US to pressure companies to move drug manufacturing to the US from other countries. This is all after the US pharmaceutical industry has claimed that Australia's PBS is losing them billions of dollars in sales.
If you don't think those are connected, you could be right, Trump is probably incompetent enough to not realize how he is affecting US trade partners in order to raise pharma profits while making medicine more expensive over all, only benefitting the big pharma. On the other hand, literally only the rich people benefit from it, while Obamacare, which you used as a comparison, actively still helps a lot of people. Obamacare isn't perfect, far from it, but whatever fuck Trump is doing is just flat out bad, unless you are the rare few benefitting from the suffering of the poor.
Nah, we have big pharma executives as Ministers in our current government, specifically overseeing Pharmac.
It's too popular to kill outright, so they've been undermining it by changing policy to force it to answer to "patients rights groups". Those groups are just astroturfing groups funded by pharmaceutical companies to undermine Pharmac's capacity to objectively assess and bargain with Pharma.
Worst part is that US companies are pulling fucking cancer drugs (complete exit from our market) because they don't want to sell it at a cheap price anymore. Despite selling it and making money for decades.
Just ignore their patents. Let American companies exploit their own apathetic populace. It would be beyond stupid and treasonous for any country to hurt the healthcare of their citizens so American terrorists can have even more money.
Agreeing to their demands just means they'll be back repeatedly to keep increasing the prices since profits are more important than society to these mentally ill sociopaths that can never have enough.
It's not over by any means. He's put a 100% tariff on Australian pharmaceuticals. The issue is that the government negotiates a price with drug companies directly. If they lower the price sufficiently, it goes on the PBS, and is subsidized by the tax payer, for the tax payer. If the price can't be negotiated low enough, it can still be sold here, it just won't go on the PBS.
Apparently, the drug companies aren't making enough from the drugs that go on the PBS to trickle it down to US citizens. Supposedly, they would pass on the extra profits to the US domestic market by lowering their prices in the US. And if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Until ‘Murica does something about removing their MAGAt infestation, I can’t imagine why we’d give a shit about their opinion about literally anything.
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u/webdog77 4h ago
They did the same things to us Aussies too. It was headlines about 3 months ago here.