He is going to open the markets to cheap foreign made clone drugs. How about Trump’s idea of making America great again by bring back manufacturing jobs? Is it okay to import aspirin but not electronics? You will be able to shop overseas for your medicine but you have to have your Ford made in the US? Is this what I’m hearing?
Only if you have a whole lot of ignorance stuck in your ears.
This doesn’t mention cheap clone drugs. For many years, the pharma companies have been fleecing the people of this country while selling the same exact drugs elsewhere for a fraction of the cost. Allowing them to be imported from other countries (same drugs) would introduce free market forces that would stop the fleecing immediately. If prices needed to be raised to pay for R&D, the price increase would be spread evenly across the world and not just paid for on the backs of US citizens.
Discouraging the moving of American manufacturing to other countries is a completely different issue and any attempt to compare the two positions and imply some sort of hypocrisy is silly.
The US taxpayers and patients subsidize - by paying full price — these other countries’ health care systems and patients.
Those nations that wag their fingers at us, lecturing us about how much US health care costs compared to theirs...we’re not only paying for their national defense, but for their health care.
Feel better now?