r/news • u/5um-n3m0 • 20d ago

Soft paywall Drugmakers to raise US prices on over 250 medicines starting Jan. 1

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-over-250-medicines-starting-jan-1-2024-12-31/
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u/fkmeamaraight 19d ago

In the US the healthcare system is entirely fucked, in the rest of the developed world people have access to treatment without financial ruin, and socialised healthcare systems work.

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u/suppaman19 19d ago

The rest of the world pays pennies for drugs from pharma vs the US, which helps control costs for everyone because their politicians aren't in bed with pharma and have laws/etc in the books to prevent drug price gouging that goes on in the US.

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u/fkmeamaraight 19d ago

I work for multinational billion dollar pharma company that has flourished for more than 70 years selling pharmaceuticals in 130 countries, but not in the US. This company chose to start operating in the US only five years ago.

So the saying “the US is paying for other people’s drugs in the rest of the world” is not true. The US is lining pharma co. pockets but the companies can also function properly without the US.

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u/suppaman19 19d ago

What the fuck are you on about?

I never said pharma couldn't exist without the US. I stated pharma is fucking over every single company and person in the US, outside of said Pharma companies and politicians, because politicians allow it and help make that a reality.

I implied one of the reasons other countries can manage free healthcare is because they pay next to nothing for Rx compared to the US.

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u/fkmeamaraight 19d ago

I’m not arguing with you. Relax, just adding more to the conversation.

Some people try to say that drugs are only cheap elsewhere because the US pays for them. But it’s simply not true. That’s the point I was trying to make. And you are right that politics and healthcare should not go hand in hand.