POTUS signed four EOs to lower drug pricing, medicare reimbursements, disclosure of hospital charge etc in 2020, the hospital disclosure eould have started on Jan. 1, 2021
Do you understand why he had to be defeated at all costs? The Pharma/Medical Industrial complex may be more powerful then the military industrial complexhow many pharma, hosptals and medical formed joined with the coup published in NewsWeek? I bet its a lot!
Trump tells Whirlpool employees they may not be seeing him for a while (hmm i wonder, how did he know that?)
“…So I have a lot of enemies out there.This may be the last time you’ll see me for a while. A lot of very, very rich enemies, but they are not happy with what I’m doing. But I figure we have one chance to do it, and no other President is going to do what I do. No other President would do a favored nations, a rebate, a buy from other nations at much less cost. Nobody. And there are a lot of unhappy people, and they’re very rich people, and they’re very unhappy.”
And speaking of pharmaceuticals, we instituted four moves — rebates, favored nations, and other things — buying from other nations where they have the product — the same exact pill, identical; made in the same factory — for a fraction — just a small fraction of the cost. We buy from other countries, as opposed to buying through this ridiculous quagmire of political scam that we’ve been going through for many years.
And what I’ve done, in terms of favored nations, if — as an example, Germany has a pill for 10 cents and we have a pill for $2. We institute favored nations on the drug company. We get the pill for the same amount as the lowest pill anywhere in the world. Anywhere in the world. (Applause.) And that could drop your price of pharmaceuticals, of drugs — prescription drugs — it could drop your price 50, 60, 70 percent, maybe more than that.
This is something — now, I have to tell you, I have never seen so many bad commercials about me as in the last three days since I did this. (Laughter.) So, will you remember that when you see this horrible commercial that I’m a “socialist” — I was called a “socialist” for the first time in my entire life. Actually, what I am doing is I’m using socialist countries, who are buying our product for far less than we’re allowed to — I’m saying, “Well, if you’re going to sell it to this country…” — might be socialist — “…for a lower price, then we’re going to get that same price.” So, you know. But I have been called everything in the book. And I say — I said, the other day, “Whenever you see a drug company advertising that Donald Trump is a bad guy, remember: Your drug prices must be coming down very big. Very big.” (Applause.) So please remember that.
Please remember that, because I don’t want to get all those negative votes,and then Biden wins, and they try — the first month, he’ll say, “I dropped drug prices 78 percent.” And he won’t even know what the hell he’s saying. I don’t want to be watching that from some beautiful resort someplace in the world. I could have — oh, I had had such a beautiful life before I did this. But that’s okay because we’re doing a great job and it makes me very happy to see people being properly representative — represented for a change.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/president-trump-makes-cryptic-remark-ohio-speech-lot-enemies-may-last-time-see/
Hospital Groups File Appeal Over Trump’s Price Disclosure RuleJuly 17, 2020, 8:20 PMLower court ruled for Trump in dispute
__Groups ask HHS to delay rule
Leading hospital trade groups say a federal district court judge was wrong to uphold a Trump administration rule that requires hospitals to publicly disclose the prices they privately negotiate with insurance companies for medical procedures.__’
But Nichols’s “erroneous conclusion” inexplicably departs from the ordinary meaning of standard charges, which the hospital industry views as prices for items and services, the groups and health systems said.
Starting Jan. 1, 2021, the rule will require some 6,000 U.S. hospitals to publicly provide their negotiated rates with insurers for 300 common medical services, along with the discounted cash price they’re willing to accept for those procedures.
“Hospitals know in their hearts that they owe the American people transparency,” said Michael Caputo, HHS assistant secretary for public affairs. “Almost no other industry so necessary to everyday life is fighting to hide their prices.”
The case is American Hospital Assoc. v. Azar, D.C. Cir., No. 20-05193, appeal 7/17/20.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/hospital-groups-file-appeal-over-trumps-price-disclosure-rule