Pharmaceutical industry
Trump: USA subsidy health care
Trump wants to press pharmaceutical prices in the USA – and shoots itself into Europe. He also explicitly calls Germany.
US President Donald Trump wants to reduce the high drug prices in the United States-and primarily targets Europe. “We subsidize the health care of others,” said the Republican in the White House when signing a decree that should make prescription drugs in the USA significantly cheaper in the future. To achieve this, Trump puts pressure on both pharmaceutical companies and foreign governments.
However, he emphasized that his main criticism was less directed against the manufacturers than against other countries. American patients have co -financed the health systems of other countries – including the “Socialist Health System”, for example in Germany, for example. In this context, he called the European Union particularly persistent and accused her of behaving more difficult in negotiations than China.
With a view to the measures now announced, Trump said about the EU: “If you want to drive games, you no longer have to sell cars to the USA.”
Whether his measures actually have an effect is open – especially since political and legal resistance can be expected. Trump had already tried to tackle the high prices during his first term, but had failed at the time.
dpa
Source: Stern
