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Iirc, that pricing will change in the US as Trump will require that the price of drugs to Medicaid patients must match or be less than that of any other developed nation.

Since about 1/4 of the people in the US are on medicaid, close to 90 million, that means the drug manufacturers will probably raise the price for everyone else in the US because they got to get their profits somehow...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-pr...



Unfortunately, per the link, it sounds like a voluntary arrangement. Essentially they're asking drug companies nicely to stop ripping off Americans.

If they're serious about this, they would introduce legislation rather than send strongly worded letters to pharma companies.


That would be pretty , unusual - Congress has shown an exceptionally strong bias to support medical industry profits over health Care through the decades.

I wonder if the bribery (campaign donations) has anything to do with it?




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