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You think pharma companies won't bill the rest of countries whatever the market can bear? I can't think of why they possibly would lower their prices even if t
by mothballed 1y ago
You think pharma companies won't bill the rest of countries whatever the market can bear? I can't think of why they possibly would lower their prices even if the American government stops subsidizing their businesses via using their monopoly on violence to enforce our perverted IP regimes.
- CharlesW 1y agoFor anyone reading not familiar with this, "America's drug prices are high because we're subsidizing the rest of the world" is MAGA propaganda, and is not based on logic. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pfizer-agrees-to-deal-on-lowering-drug-prices-amid-trump-pressure/ar-AA1NBySq https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pfizer-agrees-to-dea...
- retr0rocket 1y ago[dead]
- carlosjobim 1y agoWhat's the problem with talking points? Talking is the purpose of an open forum like this one. Let's argue against the points and not against the commenters.
- CharlesW 1y agoFair point, I’ve corrected "talking point" to "propaganda" above. Not only does it not make any logical sense, but there is zero evidence that Big Pharma isn't pricing drugs to maximize profitability in every market in which they operate. Drug companies aren’t charities.
- rockercoaster 1y agoBesides, it also invites the immediate and rather fatal rejoinder of, "OK? So how about we... don't do that?" Any negative response to that must suppose that everyone else would just give up on trying to advance drug R&D if the US stopped unilaterally self-sacrificing to subsidize it for the entire world... and when you lay it out like that, it seems like that must not actually be what's going on in the first place, because why the hell would we be do that, for that reason? So, very probably, we aren't, and further, if we are we should definitely stop.
- tedggh 1y agoEurope is highly regulated. Other countries with nationalist governments if pushed too far will make their own generic versions. So no, increasing prices in other countries to offset the loses in the American market is not that simple.