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Yeah, and it's language lock too. I was wondering what is was until i said it in english...
Why not use the universal way to write it (%) is beyond me?
Oh, that's what it was. I never saw it written that way before.
This is the work of dementia.
Push comes to shove, you don't need to buy a new car, or a new PC or a new smartphone. Even new clothes, or specific foods, you can do without any of those by replacing them or buying 2nd hand or just not having them.
Medicine is not the same. You cannot afford to "not buy it", in most cases, without severe or even fatal consequences, so tariffs are absolutely useless.
Prices will just get shifted to the end user, as they always are. It's especially egregious when it comes to medication because the prices are already hyperinflated and there're closely orchestrated monopolies that prevent price competition.
Good thing TACO.
One third of my family monthly costs is medical.
And if there is no alternative medication to compete with it's not like the manufacturer has any competition to worry about so why would they care about prices going up.
200pc? that's a big fried chicken bucket
Cruelty is the point.
It may seem so, but I personally think it's about instability, chaos and unpredictability. I honestly don't think that he or the administration feel anything towards the people that they hurt. They are doing this because of greed, and to get more power
Cruelty and greed also tend to get along. It could be both.
Yeah i agree. My point is that cruelty is not the reason. Its the tool. I dont think they really care as long as they get more power or money
Is this one of those things where I go and check where most American drugs are made and it's already the us?
The actual drug chemistry I thought was not hard manufacturing wise it's the figuring out what to manufacture that is the expensive part.
Nope. Dunno about the final manufacturing of end user pills, but of active ingredients (aka the part of the drug that is a drug) they are manufactured more than 90% overseas.
Is this one of those things where I go and check where most American drugs are made and it's already the us?
Just by looking at the value of drug imports to the US, most likely
Britain exports £8.8bn of pharmaceutical products to the United States and is home to some of the world’s largest drug companies including GSK and AstraZeneca.
Mr Trump’s drug tariffs would be especially punitive for Ireland, which is responsible for 28pc of America’s imported drugs.
The country, which exports $66bn worth of pharmaceuticals, has 30,000 people currently employed in plants by US drug companies.
Mr Trump’s drug tariffs would be especially punitive for Ireland
Nowhere close to how punitive it would be for the U.S.
I don't think a 200% tariff would even make a dent in in profits for selling Indian pharmaceuticals in US either.
Especially considering that foreign pharmaceutical companies wont be paying it?? How do people still not understand that the only people this affects are you and I when we go to buy products?
It's not that he wants american companies to make the medicine in the US. He wants international companies to set up factories in the US. Many of them already have
No. Barrels of API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) are mostly hauled from India or China, then formulated into pills or whatever, this goes especially for generic medicines. There is some american manufacture of APIs, but these tend to be on more expensive side (biologicals or small molecule drugs under patent). Inputs for these APIs also tend to be made in India or China
He will for sure Taco this one. Increasing costs for the health insurance lobby and right-wing alt health idiots will end up with paying triple for their Ivermectin or whatever? That is more heat than taco Trump can take.
He's just absolutely determined to break the healthcare system, isn't he?
No that would indicate a rational motive. He’s literally deranged. He probably came in with “2000% tariff on woke hairspray!” and the toady collective talked him down to 200% tariff on medicine.
The only way the threat could be more existential is if he was sending Einsatzgruppen to execute people in the streets.
That's a lot of pieces!
He doesn't understand how things work.
Trump is gonna kill us all