Trump to write EO drug pricing to stop Americans from paying everyone else's bill.

[Nick M]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921695676032856313

I of course opened Pandora's box regarding the hundreds of prescription drugs that should not exist.

 

[Clete]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921695676032856313

I of course opened Pandora's box regarding the hundreds of prescription drugs that should not exist.

Aside from things like abortion pills, what sort of drugs shouldn't exist?

 

[Avajs]

Where does the Peesident, any President get the power to do this? What happened to Republican free market economics?

 

[Nick M]

Aside from things like abortion pills, what sort of drugs shouldn't exist?

Statins. Anything that is a billion dollar industry, probably. Metformin off the top of my head. ADD, ADHD....Whatever they take for depression.

 

[Nick M]

What happened to Republican free market economics?

A controlled market is not a free market. We paid everyone else's bill, that is not capitalism, it is socialism.

 

[Nick M]

I have disavowed most of western medicine. If you need a surgeon? That is different. Or some other emergency or transplant.

 

[Clete]

Where does the Peesident, any President get the power to do this? What happened to Republican free market economics?

Where is there a free market in play here?

The President has the authority to make U.S. policy and if the E.U. has a policy that harms America by effectively causing Americans who buy these drugs to subsidize their socialized medicine, then he has the authority to respond to that by putting policies in place to counter the injustice.

What's more is that you need to have someone who has the authority to do such things because the closer a nation is to true laze-fair capitalism, the more other countries will take advantage in ways exactly like what Trump is fixing with this EO.