[orinoco]

Drug companies have contract with many countries. Some countries get their drugs from the same pharmaceuticals that we do for a lot less. Trump will negotiate with them to get the price for the drugs bat or below the lowest price of any other country. That would save taxpayers 300 billion dollars per year.

[austingirl]

Drug companies have contract with many countries. Some countries get their drugs from the same pharmaceuticals that we do for a lot less. Trump will negotiate with them to get the price for the drugs bat or below the lowest price of any other country. That would save taxpayers 300 billion dollars per year.

And that will put all the drug companies out of business in the US because those prices are what funds their R&D. No more new drugs or cures.

[Hoodat]

Sorry, I'm not seeing how adding prescription drugs to the government shopping list is going to save taxpayers any money. Seems to me that taxpayers could save themselves the cost of this by not doing it. $300 billion? How much will the government have to spend on drugs in order to save the taxpayer $300 billion?

(fyi, nationwide total pharmacy sales of prescription drugs is well below $300 billion).