I won't spend any time analyzing the few and incoherent clues Trump left -- in his Friday night passel of "executive orders" -- related to some future, "maybe I'll do it, eventually", stalking-horse bid -- on drug price measures, since he's using them as a cudgel, for his scheduled August 24 meeting with PhRMA executives.
Not one of these will (Condor predicts) have much chance of changing. . . anything, since he is clearly now in lame duck territory (and waited 3-1/2 years. . . to start, on living up to his campaign promises!) -- all with below 40 per cent approval ratings, and nearly at the end of his term, now. Hilariously. . . sad.
Here's the bit, from NPR:
. . . .The Trump Administration has announced four executive orders to lower drug prices, but health policy experts say they will likely offer patients only minimal relief and may take months to implement, if they're implemented at all. . . .
The orders signed Friday afternoon included allowing certain drugs to be imported from Canada and making changes to the way discounts negotiated by middlemen called pharmacy benefit managers are passed on to Medicare patients. . . .
Now you know. We have talked about Canada -- and drug re-importation -- for at least 12 long years, here. Just to be clear -- this will NOT be the year it happens. Onward, smiling -- as a sun-dappled bike ride, by the lake awaits. . . .
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Parallel imports from Canada won't work.
In the 1990's XXXXX was having problems with Germans importing their drugs that they sold to Spain at lower prices than the price that they sold them to the Germans.
All XXXXX had to do was go to the Spanish authorities and tell them that they knew how much usage they expected from Spanish patients and if it went over that amount they wouldn't provide Spain any additional drug. So if they wanted Spaniards to get drugs they needed they better not let it be sold to other countries for profiteering by middlemen.
Well-put Anon. And of course, you well-know I agree.
Always have.
Just like all other things Trump puts forward. . . it cannot really be taken. . . seriously.
He's a useless. . . clown.
But you knew that already.
Namaste, man. . . .
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