Until this week, Trump has advocated not giving Americans access to cheaper drugs from abroad but forcing other countries to raise their own pharmaceutical prices. Columnist Davidlaz on the Trump administration's announcement about drug prices:
President Trump would prefer that you think he’s working tirelessly to protect Americans from soaring drug prices.it wants to create a system that allows people to legally access lower-cost prescription meds from Canada.
Trump said it was “ridiculous” that “their medicine is a tiny fraction of what the medicine costs in the USA.” The implication was that people in other countries should be paying as much as Americans. Azar, who last year dismissed drug imports as a “gimmick,” told reporters Wednesday that Trump has always favored the idea, which he hasn’t, and that the president has been pressuring government officials to take action.
“Do you expect the branded suppliers will ship more product to Canada than the Canadian demand requires?” asked William Comanor, a professor of health policy and management at UCLA. “Are the companies stupid?”“Drug manufacturers are going to make it difficult for Canada to subsidize our drugs,” said Stacie B. Dusetzina, an associate professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University.
“There is no way to guarantee the safety of drugs that come into the country from outside the United States’ gold-standard supply chain,” he said. “Drugs coming through Canada could have originated from anywhere in the world and may not have undergone stringent review by the FDA.”This is, of course, a bogus argument. It’s predicated on the idea that Canadian officials have less stringent safety standards than their U.S.
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