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Aside from life-saving medicine, I was thinking that the un-availability (not 'available with tariffs' but 'we're not selling it to the US anymore') of Ozempic
by touisteur 2y ago
Aside from life-saving medicine, I was thinking that the un-availability (not 'available with tariffs' but 'we're not selling it to the US anymore') of Ozempic in the US might become a political problem, maybe more so than many other trade-war hits. Maybe it's easy to manufacture it locally but the time-gap until it's up and running might be too much to swallow...
- tokai 2y agoNot going to happen. It would kill Novo Nordisk, which would be extremely bad for the Danish economy.
- touisteur 2y agoI think having Greenland annexed might also be a problem for the Danish. Europe might subsidize Novo Nordisk's losses, switch to distributing the meds all throughout Europe. And it seems the loss of such a society-transformative drug (and having millions of people gaining back all their lost weight would be a difficult/untenable political position for this administration. Just surprised not to see this much in the current news. Sibling in thread says there's already an US alternative, anyway.
- thfuran 2y agoI don't think that would end up being a political problem. It'd just get spun as the evil communist Europeans trying to destroy America with their traitor liberal collaborators and used as justification for passing the FAT IS FREEDOM Act, which subsidizes butter production and eliminates capital gains tax and the library of Congress.
- agsqwe 2y agoUS has Eli Lilly with a competing product (Tirzepatide)