Trump incolpa l’Europa “brutale” per aumentare i costi della droga nel tentativo di frenare i prezzi degli Stati Uniti
https://fortune.com/europe/2025/05/13/trump-blames-brutal-europe-soaring-drug-costs-curb-us-drug-prices-ozempic-eli-lilly/
di FrozenFury12
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The US has entire layers of healthcare which are designed to extract the maximum possible rent from consumers in desperate need of healthcare.
There’s no way to reduce costs in the US without eliminating all of those rent-seeking layers.
Thing is Europe and elsewhere don’t mind generics and don’t allow drugs companies to advertise to consumers.
As such they’ll just say “too expensive so we’ll go elsewhere” whereas in the US patients might demand the drug they’ve seen on TV regardless of price.
Plus there’s a greater emphasis on preventative measures and actively avoiding the need for drugs entirely. Not often the case in the US.
There are a whole host of reasons why there’s more money in drugs in the US.
he is an idiot.
The issue is their system, where healthcare and health insurance is profit based business. It is fully run with commercials, focused on profit of those companies.
In Europe, healthcare and health insurance is service.
Nothing to do with subsidizing prices. If you break arm in Czechia with no insurance, the treatment will cost you 100-250 USD.
IF you break arm in USA, the cost will be 3-10k.
Potentially **100 times more expensive** with basically just some **pain medication, crust and Xray.**
So yeah, he is an idiot. He is treating syndromes (=drugs are expensive) rather than a cause (for profit medical care).
Fuck what Trump thinks or says.
Can he just fuck off for a day? Jesus H. Christ.
Time to stop recognising US patents then I guess.
he is a nazi enabler. His opinion is not welcome here
how politics really works —you see a problem you don’t look for someone to blame
you find a way to fix it!
Of course it couldn’t possibly be the corrupt and greedy system that permeates the US 🙄
Always the others. Never his mistakes. What a loser.
This man is a dick.
He got defeated by China, now he needs to get ignored by EU.
I knew he would come for the European health care systems soon. Maga has been lying for years that drug prices in the US are high because they are partly (not really though) regulated in Europe.
another day, another lie
He’s sounding more and more socialist! I thought he and his mates were capitalists?!
Maybe the US should become our 28th state, so they can enjoy the benefits!
Blablablablablabla
Yeah, it’s totally our fault!
Fuck you orange asshole.
The idiot is projecting again.
And since he made up with China for now, and since there always has to be someone (but not him) who is the bad guy the ugly guy – I guess it’s Europe now even though the idiot doesn’t realize Europe has the system he actually wants for drugs
What a moron
EU leaders made progress in peace talks.
But he wants to be seen as the one who negotiated this – because there is one thing he can‘t buy with all the bribe money he got:
A Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama has it. This is what keeps him awake. This is his weakest spot.
So EU is the foe of the week.
Enjoy your for-profit healthcare!
This is all about getting other countries to drop their regulations this has nothing to do with helping the American people.
Medicine should be a right for everyone in the world
And I blame US citizens for electing this idiot who makes everything worse
[Meme with bicycle and stick goes here]
Moron. He is the reason, aliens don’t visit us.
What lmao
Turd shall flush himself. They scam and price-gouge each other with no involvement of Europe whatsoever.
Has this man ever taken blame for something?
LoL
wait until he finds out how much it costs to have an education
The party of other people’s personal responsibility. Never his.
He really is a fucking idiot
Trumps whole schtick: create problem, fix problem he created slightly, MAGA sheep: brilliant man
The EU and every other country in the world negotiates drug prices with manufacturers.
Trump cancelled every price reducing bulk drug purchase agreement the Biden administration made between Medicare and Big Pharma Corps-the same arrangements every developed country in the world (except the USA) makes to keep drug costs low. Now he’s playing the “victim card” YET AGAIN because the GOP always puts Big Pharma profits over the needs of the American people. The irony of blaming Europe for cutting good deals for their people while Trump refuses to do the same thing in the USA will be completely lost on all Trump voters, as usual.
Can we have a filter for all things Trump so I can stop seeing this “man” on screen all the time?
Could the Fanta Fascist please just piss off?
L5 fusion back surgery in Canada. MRI’s 2, CAT scans 2, numerous X-rays, surgery and post surgery physiotherapy.
Zero out of pocket dollars. We pay for our healthcare through Provincial and Federal income tax. The cost is spread throughout the entire population.
Of course Donald would, if it weren’t drug prices it would oil production, or Eggs Prices, perhaps, movies with interesting plots. The man is a menace to world stability and peace, he’s no saviour or peace maker, rather a wanna bee whatever sounds good the minute his attention focuses upon a bug in the sauce.
Thank Gawd only 1347 full days left.
Yanks, I’m so glad our relationship is over. It was nice sending you off across the big pond, and now it’s time to let go.
Godspeed.
Blame others. Just what winners do!
No, the soaring cost of drugs had to do with the fact that Trump himself rescinded Biden’s cap on medication cost at $35. Now while I agree that it’s ridiculous, that other countries like Canada and those of the EU get the same medication’s for pennies on the dollar by comparison. It’s the drug companies that are charging the prices and they’re gouging the American people. We’re not really subsidizing or socializing Europe’s healthcare. They have a system set up where their healthcare is built into their taxes and it cost them literally nothing to get doctors appointments or surgery etc. By comparison here a trip to the ER cost a minimum of $2500. Births cost $10-$20,000 at least. I’ve heard it as much as 40 or 50. For profit healthcare is an absolute joke.
This dude is dumber then the sand beneath our feet bro
No, it’s the brutal greed of US corporations.
What a fucking clueless orange paedo
Jeezus Chirst man. He is now really saying that European universal healthcare systems are a “brutal tactic” that somehow raises the prices for the US. If any US American is here: we are not going to abandon universal healtcare systems because you claim it’s connected to your prices.
Now we got that out of the way, please understand that when the state provides universal healthcare, the state also holds significant bargaining power for pharmaceutical prices. That’s how we get lower prices, because one massive customer buying in bulk is inevitable getting a lower price than hundreds of customers buying small amounts. It is called economies of scale.
And you can have that too, America, but you decided thay universal healthcare is communism. Oh, jeez, if that isn’t the consequences of your own actions. Now please, just fuck off for a couple of months. Summer is about to hit, we communist Europeans like to lazily lounge during our siesta and don’t want to hear anymore from your loud mouthed monkey of a “leader”.
Could he sign an executive order so that it only rains during nights and days are always sunny?
It’s capitalism! The same drug makers will charge 10x for the same drug in the US vs some European countries with the collective bargaining power of “socialist” healthcare. Didn’t he just say the German health insurance system sucks? Well this is what it does.
Blaming Europe for Big Pharma living the american dream of capitalism?
After killing the regulations on prices for some meds by Biden (because Biden …)
Plan: raise prices in Europe, those companies will surely voluntarily drop US drug prices because it is the right thing to do. They are not doing it for the money. Right?