Donald Trump In this way he described the main element of his plan to reduce the prices of drugs in America. As he announced during a press conference in the White House, he will recommend the Ministry of Trade to start investigating the practices of foreign countries – mainly from the EU – which “force very low prices from pharmaceutical companies (…), unfairly shifting the burden of costs on American patients“.
“The most important thing we will do will be to inform these countries, such as those represented by the European Union that you know, the end of this good, I'm sorry” – said Trump.
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“And if they want to get off, they no longer have to sell cars to the United States. But they don't get out because I will defend pharmaceutical companies” – he added.
Trump stated that the authorities of the state “forced” low prices of drugs at pharmaceutical concerns, and the concerns made up for prices in the US, thereforeAmerican patients in practice subsidized healthcare systems in Germany and all parts of the European Union” “nasty than China“but”There are no cards“And she will have to agree to large concessions in negotiations.
“They sell us 13 million cars. We don't sell them to them. They sell us our agricultural products. We don't sell them anything. They don't take our products. It gives us all the cards (…) So they will have to pay more for health care, and we will have to pay less” – said Trump.
Pursuant to the executive regulation he signed, other elements of the president's plan to reduce the prices of drugs assume, among others Determining medicines at the level of other developed countries by means of appropriate regulations, as well as increasing the import of medical agents from abroad. According to the text of the company, they will have 30 days to make progress to reduce the prices of medicines in the US.
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Trump said that he was in this way against the “most powerful lobby, the drug lobby”, and his health minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He said that only Trump was able to take such actions because “you can't buy it”. According to the plan, these activities are to reduce medicine prices by up to 80 percent. Currently, American prices are on average three times higher than those in other developed countries.
According to the New York Times, the president's decree may be blocked by courts if Congress does not adopt similar provisions. The initiative will encounter the opposition of the pharmaceutical industry, which has so far justified higher prices with the need to finance research on the development of new drugs.
