Trump denounces ‘middlemen,’ largely spares pharma in drug pricing speech

Modern Healthcare and many others ^ | 5-14-18 | Many

[spintreebob]

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180511/NEWS/180519968

https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/11/trump-drug-pricing-speech/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-denounces-middlemen-and-largely-spares-pharma-in-drug-pricing-speech/

http://www.bipc.com/trump-condemns-middlemen-in-drug-pricing-speech-modern-healthcare

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2018/05/14/the-health-202-health-industry-appears-unfazed-by-trump-s-drug-pricing-speech/5af4ac5530fb042588799464/

http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/health-plans/eliminating-middlemen-trump-takes-aim-pbms-drug-pricing-speech

http://www.bipc.com/trump-condemns-middlemen-in-drug-pricing-speech-modern-healthcare

[Zhang Fei]

https://www.ibrance.com/financial-assistance

Not sure if any of the financial assistance options applies to you, but Pfizer has created a web link that explores them.

[Zhang Fei]

“Now after mid July we
are told canadadrug will no longer be able to sell to the U.S. market. sigh, what to do.”

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Look up cheap flights to Canada or Mexico? And the names of big name reputable drugstore chains there?

[shalom aleichem]

Maybe Trump is learning to pick his targets. It is true the “middlemen”, who are not even the pharmacists, rake a horrendous slice. Big pharma does the research which creates more cures, And they get their pants sued off all the time.

[spintreebob]

Notice the Drug price curve and Bush’s Part D venture. Bush said it would cost the taxpayer little. He did not mention the price of drugs.

But Reason magazine and various libertarian magazines accirately predicted what would happen.

I’m not trying to put you on the spot. Just using this to make an observation.