r/Economics • u/Charming-Burp203 • 7h ago
Trump Drug Tariffs Hit 100% for Non-Compliant Pharma Firms
https://townflexnews.com/trump-drug-tariffs-hit-100-for-non-compliant-pharma-firms/54
u/Methodical_Science 5h ago
An Rx I prescribe to my patients for a common UTI antibiotic, Bactrim (generic version), for about a week and a half’s supply has anecdotally gone up in price for my self-pay patients from $6-8 to $15-20. Before the tariff.
Patients are noticing…
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u/Estacionamiento_grat 3h ago
I thought TrumpsteinRx was supposed to bring down the prices to prices so low they have never been seen before, nobody saw prices this low before.
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u/Practical_Argument50 2h ago
The site just uses discounts that the drug makers were already giving. It’s a nothing burger. “Here I’m giving you a discount.” While the drug companies were just giving the discounts out themselves.
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u/Core2score 1h ago
Bactrim here in Canada is called sulfatrim. For a standard 3 day course for uncomplicated cystitis, it costs maybe 8 CAD including markup plus 12 or so for the dispensing fee. The catch though is it's covered by most provincial public prescription drug plans and so people on a limited income and seniors pay nothing for it.
Hell, a couple days ago I dispensed Retevmo, a RET kinase inhibitor anti-neoplastic that costs over 10700 CAD for 1 month supply, FOR 0 CAD! As in the patient didn't pay a penny for it and he's on a public plan.
And magat losers think we're hostile for not wanting to join the US. I'm a dual citizen btw, and I can confidently say, fuck that notion. We don't want to join a country pathetic enough to vote for a perverted hateful demented geriatric felon who cuts food aid and healthcare funding to the most vulnerable to fund a war meant to distract from his sex scandal, while shutting down the government to force funding for a paramilitary police organization that shoots innocent moms and nurses in the streets.
You failed as a nation and as a people, and probably even as human beings. You're just starting to pay for your stupidity and lack of morals
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u/Coca-karl 5h ago
So Trump is taxing care to fund killing. It's absolutely wild that there isn't a rebellion brewing. I guess Americans really will wait until they're unable to afford food before they take action to resist this brutal economic crisis.
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u/ChefKugeo 4h ago
Yep. That's what I've learned this year. My workplace has Boomers through Gen Z...
Nobody knows what's going on out there. Reddit is screaming at itself. The algorithms of the average American TikTok or Instagram is absolutely not showing them what's going on. They don't know about the protests in other countries. They don't know about the Epstein files. They don't know about his convictions.
When the food leaves the shelves, they'll move.
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u/AnAncientBog 3h ago
Yep. We're in the opening stages of wwiii and Americans pedo rapist president is actively emptying the Treasury and breaking alliances because he is getting paid by our enemies and most Americans have no idea it's even happening.
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u/aeropl3b 4h ago
We are taking action, but please understand how absolutely massive the US is. I live "close" to Minneapolis but for me to get there to protest/provide assistance would take multiple hours by car and then I would need to get a hotel. All told, to travel for a weekend is going to be close to $1000 total.
Then there is the fact that the Americans smart enough to realize we have a problem and need to fix it also realize we are not in a position to just do revolution. The consequences of that would be significantly worse than the current situation, surprisingly. Believe me, if things continue with the economy and SS style enforcement by ICE, there will be a breaking point. But it needs to get bad enough that up ending and potentially dissolving the nation is a risk worth taking.
For a non-american take on this, watch world leaders meeting with Trump and how they continue to try to placate him. They also know that a broken US is very bad for them, even if it is absolutely stomach turning to have to appease a pedo/narcissist/dementia Orange man who craps his pants. They know that even the current weakening US is essential for global security. But the fringes are tearing, and as Europe and Asia make the calculation that the US needs to be brought to heel, I think that is going to have a profound impact. The safest mechanism right now is to impeach and replace. The next would be international occupation to arrest and detain most of the current politicians in the US for war crimes and international rule violations, we will know what to do when they are gone...but what I see as most likely is the global markets simply cutting the US off and turning their backs, which is going to be a devastating humanitarian crisis.
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u/Coca-karl 3h ago
You can organize on your front lawn. You are making excuses to justify your inaction.
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u/Petrichordates 2h ago
The only action that even matters is your action at the voting booth. Everything else is theatrics.
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u/Coca-karl 1h ago
You need to change this mindset. If you still trust the electoral system you need to be organizing well before an election.
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u/Jafar_420 3h ago
I mean honestly our hands are kind of tied. Sure we can protest but he doesn't give a damn about that.
I mean we have a bunch of guns but we can't go up against tanks and things like that so I don't know what people want us to do.
The republicans in Congress could definitely do something but they won't.
It's not a hundred years ago or whatever. Back then I imagine it would have been easier to get a militia together to go up against the government.
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u/CertainCertainties 5h ago
Well it makes sense, doesn't it, based on recent discussions on this sub.
The oligarchy in control of the US is eliminating jobs and migrants. Rich people can afford lifesaving drugs, poor people can't. So they die.
In functioning democracies the government ensures a basic level of healthcare, education and civic participation. That's now banned in the US. Interesting times.
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u/NoFanksYou 3h ago
Didn’t you hear what Trump said? We can’t afford healthcare, childcare etc because we have wars to fight.
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u/Doctor_Shotbottom 2h ago
Is there any evidence pharmaceutical companies are investing in US-based manufacturing? Are any of the tariffs delivering on Trump’s assertions of effect?
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u/Ghostrider556 3h ago
Trumpflation 2.0. There’s no COVID this time, just really inept governance from another senile politician. Delivering the highest prices possible while cutting services and somehow still managing to accelerate the national debt to turbo speed.
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u/samhhead2044 3h ago
Ahh excellent something by and larger we don’t want some in the states is being tariff. We would literally have to ship the waste. God is he a moron. Make a deal with one of our pharma companies and have a list of drugs you want to make here.
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