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FriedButter

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In other news, US Pharma is going to start hiking everyone else drug prices by xxx% to please Trump (and their Yachts.)

The Eunuch Union will 100% bend their toes instead of their knees and pay US fraud prices.

“When [we] do the math, shall we reduce the US price to France’s level or stop supplying France? We [will] stop supplying France,” Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla

US drugmakers threaten to withhold products from Europe over prices​

US pharmaceutical companies are stepping up their campaign for higher drug prices in Europe, in some cases threatening to withhold new medicine if European lawmakers refuse.

Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla, the first pharmaceutical boss to announce a pricing agreement with US President Donald Trump last year, said the deal forced Pfizer to increase prices abroad.

“When [we] do the math, shall we reduce the US price to France’s level or stop supplying France? We [will] stop supplying France,” Bourla told reporters at the annual JPMorgan healthcare conference this week.

“So they will stay without new medicines. The system will force us not to be able to accept the lower prices.”

Other pharm executives said at the conference that they were quietly considering withholding or delaying drug launches in Europe.
Trump last year demanded drugmakers slash prices in the US or face tariffs. As of this month, 16 global drug companies — from AstraZeneca to Roche’s Genentech — have agreed to lower US drug prices. These voluntary agreements with the White House require companies to benchmark certain drugs in the US at prices in other developed countries ranging from Canada to Europe and Japan.

Trump on Friday hailed the deals as cudgels that forced Europe to increase prices. “So we go from a horrible situation on prescription drugs to the lowest price anywhere in the world,” he said.

With their deals with Trump finalised, pharmaceutical executives are raising pressure on Europe and other countries to increase prices and balance potential revenue losses in the US.

Last year, Bristol Myers Squibb threatened to halt the launchof its popular schizophrenia drug in the UK if it did not increase prices. In December, the UK promised to increase drug prices in a deal with the US.

In an interview with the FT this week, BMS’s chief commercialisation officer Adam Lenkowsky, said the UK deal did not go far enough.

“It is a positive step forward. I still think there is a long way to go.”

Daniel O’Day, chief executive of Gilead, said his company’s pricing deal with Trump “really gives us an opportunity to reset” pricing in the rest of the world.

Historically, European countries with government healthcare systems have had the power to strong-arm pharmaceutical companies into paying low prices. By contrast, the US has private and public healthcare providers that do not negotiate together for drug prices.

As the pharmaceutical companies called for higher prices, Germany’s largest public health insurance provider, Techniker Krankenkasse, said that drug prices were already too high.

“We in Germany are clearly paying too much,” said Jens Baas, chief executive of TK.

“The [German] legislature must act and urgently implement measures to reduce spending, especially in the area of patented drugs.”
Higher drug prices were unlikely to stimulate economies in Germany or Europe, Baas said. “They only increase the profit margins for pharmaceutical companies and burden those paying into the statutory health insurance system.”

TK declined to comment about the pharmaceutical executives’ statements on drug prices.

The tensions were likely to lead to delayed drug launches in Europe, analysts said.

Already, drugs launched in Europe about a year after they did in the US, said Will Humphrey, a vice-president at Capstone, a healthcare policy and consulting firm.

“All of this reminds me of the way Trump has handled Nato,” he said, referring to the US pressure campaign to force its allies to spend more on defence.

“These European nations do not have significant budget surpluses they can use to increase expenditures on drug pricing immediately. They are going to have to find a way to accommodate some of these priorities from the Trump administration or risk these drugmakers delaying their launches.”
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AssassinsMace

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In other news, US Pharma is going to start hiking everyone else drug prices by xxx% to please Trump (and their Yachts.)

The Eunuch Union will 100% bend their toes instead of their knees and pay US fraud prices.



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That's why China shouldn't be granting international licenses on Chinese drugs. The US will deny important drugs that are Chinese in origin to the world for political purposes and China won't be able to do anything about it.
 

iewgnem

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That's why China shouldn't be granting international licenses on Chinese drugs. The US will deny important drugs that are Chinese in origin to the world for political purposes and China won't be able to do anything about it.
Licensing means they pay China for the previlage of selling them in agreed markets, which doesnt include China and whattever country China doesnt allow. If they dont make money from licensed drugs they're just donating their own money to China without actually affecting availibility in poor countries.

I dont think China really care if Europeans gets forced to help pay for license fee
 

Chevalier

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Pastor a ice officer that why China ban western church of taking over look at south korea bunch of Church nuts
Modern Christianity has always been a vehicle for white supremacy and western colonialism In much the same way Wahhabist Islam has always been a vehicle of arabisation.
Canada will put up a serious fight. US will perform worse than Russia in Ukraine if they try to invade. US ground forces will get bogged down in all Canadians lakes and swamps and all the forests will help ground forces be concealed. it will be a nightmare for US.
debatable, Anglos are like muslims in the sense that tolerate infighting amongst the ummah (white, western ppl) but frequently try to invoke an outside race eg Chinese to cement their leadership over the other western nations,


Really should’ve given him that Nobel peace prize. it was an insult considering the European west benefits from US hegemony, the protection and spoils. And it was such a minor, trivial thing to satiate his ego but the prissy globohomo Obama loving Europeans just couldn’t help themselves, they had to make new money trump feel inferior and that’s bloody dangerous because men like trump always hold grudges.
 

Temstar

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@siegecrossbow, the Fallout thing if you please.
Didn't US annex Canada in Fallout to sure up supplies lines to the Anchorage front where US army and PLA are engaged in land combat?

Compared to Trump's Whitehouse:
“They certainly need to up their game when it comes to Arctic capabilities,” one official told the outlet, adding that Canada’s northern border “is not acceptable given today’s threats” and that “the status quo is not enough.”
Seems rather similar to me.
 

Lethe

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I like to check in on Hugh White from time to time, as one of the more prescient and insightful Australian observers of the developing contest between the United States and China and the choices that portends for us. Still, I certainly did not expect to come across a four hour book club discussion:


Entertainment for the TikTok generation this is not. Hugh really is a wonderful communicator. He has the patient and cautious air one associates with academic types, but without the verbose and convoluted language that often comes along for the ride. Above all, the impression is of a learned conversation, rather than an ideologue pushing a particular narrative. I particularly appreciated his comments towards the end of their discussion on Donald Kagan's The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War on maintaining a sense of human moral agency in the face of narratives that X is inevitable or that Y is the only path available (~5 minutes from
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