Trump says 'major tariff' coming soon on foreign pharmaceuticals
(www.usatoday.com)
from commander@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 2025 03:41
https://lemmy.world/post/27966596
from commander@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 09 Apr 2025 03:41
https://lemmy.world/post/27966596
#world
threaded - newest
Oh good, that’s totally going to help drug prices go down, right?
Everywhere else ? Probably
This motherfucker is literally gonna kill me by making my already unaffordable cancer meds really insanely unaffordable.
Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.
And 85% of medical isotopes come from Canada!
Is this for cancer drugs or generics in general? Only asking because most of the generics I see in the UK are made here, but that might be because I’ve only seen the more common medications and not stuff like cancer drugs.
Hope you manage to beat the cancer!
India makes a huge amount of drugs. The UK probably just doesn’t import them.
You might not see them made in India on the label since the tablet is assembled in UK but the API (the molecule that actually does the job) and additives might be sourced elsewhere. China and India produce a lot of them. They might also sell precursors later used to make API in UK so there might be always some contribution form India / China etc.
Trump wanted to support the black market pharmaceuticals.
How about going abroad for treatment?
Look, I’ve been worried about being under surveillance for my political views and personal connections since the Bush era (made friends in college with middle eastern exhange students who went back to their home country and kept in touch). Technically (not really) being part of the queer community because I date transwomen (transwomen are women, duh) further complicates the matter. Not looking to be the first white cisman US citizen to be disappeared to El Salvador, thanks.
If I manage to leave the country I better god damn have a plan to not have to come back and to get some form of political asylum elsewhere.
You sound based af dude
Well I’m glad someone out there thinks so. I am pretty self assured that I am on the right side of history, but fuck living in this country beats down your mental health, doesn’t it?
So, he really IS going to try and put tariffs on fentanyl?
Somehow I don’t think smugglers pay tariffs.
Oh they’ll pay all sorts of crazy tariffs, just like the rest of us. They just won’t pay them for fentanyl.
these are called bribes
Fentanyl is for the poor, the rich prefer the white flour. Why should he care? 🤷
i was recently prescribed a life changing medication that has given me the opportunity to have my lifespan return to normal as it is currently reduced, and i am noticing true positive improvement for the first time living with this illness, and i feel like i can start regaining my identity, and my physical and mental wellbeing, and now the president of my country is going to make this already expensive drug even more costly? what am i supposed to do, just stop taking it? what is anyone with a worse condition than me supposed to do for their illness? what about people with severe mental disorders that might be invisible to the public but struggle deeply all the same? this will lead to unnecessary deaths. every time the medical supply is messed with, people die. this needs to be met with more than outrage. Trump is signing a death warrant on ill Americans. who are you willing to sacrifice so you don’t have to get involved? because, again, people are going to die.
He’s a Nazi. It’s actually an efficient way to get rid of all ill people that are not rich. Don’t need no concentration camps yet.
This right here is exactly what he’s up to.
And for those who aren’t rich but have jobs with decent employer-provided healthcare, it will make those people fearful of undertaking any protest actions that may see them on the wrong side of a doxxing campaign or an illegal detention.
It’s about threading fear through the fabric of society.
I take a topical for atopic dermatitis that is better tolerated than a topical corticosteroid. And it’s primarily made in India as a generic. Also because topical corticosteroids long term effects are rebound disease and skin atrophy.
As someone who was considering taking a week off work as I would have needed to attend Donald Duck style to avoid fabric-on-leg contact, tell me more about this well tolerated topical
if you havedermatitis, exzema, you can try tacrolimus, or another inhibitor like elidel(pimecrolimus). you will have to avoid sunlight for a couple hours though(it does cause itching but that goes away after continious uses)if exposed to sunlight it amplifies the ithcing, warm feeling. some people dont like the itching or the sensations, it goes way after a while.
unlike the steroid it wont cause thinning or rebound effect(aka steroid withdrawal), safe for use of the eyes. you have to ask the derm for it though.
Like a really bad gambler, double downing every hand in blackjack.
Not on topic but that is actually a valid strategy for blackjack. It is the reason that table limits exist. Otherwise doubling down every loss will eventually net you a positive.
For global politics is still next level stupid.
A valid losing strategy, sure.
But doubling down can only be done during play, not at the start of a hand.
You misunderstood. A person doubles the bet on the next hand after a losing hand. This is different than doubling down on a 9, 10, or 11 during play.
Ahh yes, the “thank God I have infinite money, I literally can’t lose” approach.
We call it the Musky Bezos.
Yeah, martingale
It’s sort of a crazy strategy in Blackjack too. Lose 7-8 times in a row and you’re already betting 100x your starting bet.
It’s actually the strategy with the best return of any strategy, including card counting. In any blackjack strategy you need a large bankroll to take advantage of the law of large numbers.
Seriously, this works so well and is the reason for table limits.
Because you will never find a no limit blackjack table you cannot actually apply this strategy in the real world. But it is mathematically sound.
It’s not sound actually because it trivially ends up in nonsensical amounts of money and any sufficiently long series of rolls will have an increasing chance of having a sufficiently long series of losses such that no reasonable person can possibly recover from it. For instance who that can afford to bet 1024x 100 or $100,000 on a single game of chance is excited by betting $100?
It’s nonsense.
It’s mathematically sound because you do guarantee a net positive with enough of a bankroll. As I have mentioned in other comments here this is not a strategy that can be used in the real world.
You even admit it would work with absurd amounts of money… The math works.
The math doesn’t work because given enough rolls you literally always go bankrupt no matter what bankroll you start with. Take the simplest option a fair coin where you win on tails and lose on heads. Real actual random flips will contains runs of heads. Let N be the number of rolls required to bankrupt you for any value of N. The more you roll the more the probability of such a run increases towards 1.
You could end up bankrupting a billion dollar bank starting with 10 dollar bets. It’s only sound if you have a literally infinite bank. For any finite bank you just have to play longer to lose but you always end up losing.
If you’ve lost 8 times in a row, you’re actually now betting 256x your original bet.
It’s NOT a good strategy. Statistically it doesn’t by any means whatsoever ensure you’ll end up net positive.
It’s called “Oscar’s Grind” and there is a plethora of mathematics that show it is does not beat the house.
It is called the Martingale system.
Oscars grind works in a completely different fashion, and you do not raise your bet when you lose.
Thank you for this. I knew how the strategy plays but not the name.
Well if you keep digging, eventually you’ll end up in China on the positive side.
You just have to overflow your casino balance back into the positive
If you can’t win at blackjack, you are doing it wrong.
He’s definitely got double downs syndrome
fuck you
You’ll all be so poor and stupid you’ll have to vote for us.
Heh. With how they’re taking over the FEC and other election regulatory bodies in red states, I am not optimistic there’ll be normal/fair elections in the near future. Not that the pre-existing gerrymandering was fair to begin with in many states, but it’s going to get worse.
Anyone who thinks there will be fair elections needs to wake the fuck up. Look at how much Trump has changed what is considered normal in just 3 months. By the time mid term elections come around none of the institutions that allow for elections to happen normally will even exist anymore. I doubt the presendential elections will happen at all, by then the economy will be so far in shambles that America will be in survival mode.
Americans need to step up now, if you wait for elections you will be too late.
Two months ago people kept telling me I was wrong for saying this that “the Judiciary is working” as if it isn’t acting as scotch tape
Everyday Americans with little power on our own are stepping up. Republicans are refusing to do town halls in their own districts because even their constituents are showing up and yelling at them. Congressional voice mailboxes are routinely full and people are writing letters and emails. Last Saturday, there were 1300+ protests with like 1,000,000 people taking to the streets. And that was just the first one. There’s a lot more people who support the protests but didn’t hear about them ahead of time or couldn’t make it (for whatever reason; work, disabilities, childcare, etc.).
The problem now isn’t with “Americans” writ large. It’s spineless leadership. And not just “leadership” in the sense of corrupt elected officials and judges. I also mean major university presidents and law firm partners that capitulated rather than fight back. Business leaders not speaking out (anonymous quotes in the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal isn’t speaking out; they’re like $400 a year and most people don’t know how to get around paywalls). Religious leaders — white evangelical Protestant ones, anyway — failing in every possible way. Retired generals (or anyone else who swore an oath to the constitution) should be livid.
Maybe now that he tanked the global economy and is fucking with rich people’s money, there will be more resistance from so-called “elites” but I’m not holding my breath waiting for them to stop being cowards and protecting their own asses. But regular people are doing what we can.
Or the voter suppression system already in place too
Is his strategy to force the Republicans in Congress to do their job and take away the power they gave him to impose teriffs so he can then say…
“My plan, and it was a great plan. Many smart people looked at it and said it was the smartest plan they had ever seen for any economy every. The smartest plan. None of them had never heard a plan as smart as mine. They could barely believe it when they heard it. It was such a good plan, but those Liberals in Congress stopped it. It was working. All the best economu people in all the world said it was working and was going to be the best most amazing thing anybody had ever seen. Because it was. It was doing the greatest any president had ever done for this country, but they said no. Why would they do that? Maybe they don’t want to make America great again. Because that’s what my amazing plan was doing, but maybe they don’t want that. My amazing plan that everybody agreed was the best plan ever. So much better than any other plan, but they blocked it. We need better people in Congress. People who will work with me, not against me.”
I don't think he's that smart, but if he is that's actually brilliant.
FUCK ALL REPUBLICANS
Uhh, no thanks, I like my genitals disease free
Hey, worms have feelings too.
I foresee a cave-in.
I saw my mom watching The Handmaids Tale today. It made me think, are we slowly transforming into Gilead?
FYI, I know Gilead is United States. I read the book.
That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.
Oh also, apparently Elisabeth Moss is a Scientologist. So, eck. Unsure if I’ll continue.
Well I grew up having a crush on Moss from The West Wing but, no, not gonna watch it.
I’m not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn’t read the book and think EUREKA!!! It’s too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.
Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that’s why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it’s opening, she’ll pop up in a surprise since it’s before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.
We’re on course to becoming the White Lords’ Church from the VN White or Black.
In that world, Trump is dead by the 2030s. Unrest and political troubles killed an alien attempting to make first contact. But religious MAGA, looking for a leader, decides to support the aliens. They claim that the aliens are angels sent by God, pointing to various events in the Bible as clear evidence of their influence. And then, since the people are eager to overthrow Musk, they decide to sign up with the aliens. Musk and his buddies are all dead/converted when the Church assumes control of the US in the late 2060s/early 2070s. And then they take over everything else by the start of the 22nd century.
The Church is Gilead if they favored Brave New World over 1984. And they’re a lot more stable, and rule a lot longer than Gilead, lasting until the 27th century at least.
Lol wait, so the Ancient Aliens people are gonna influence nation wide decisions? Hell yeah, that’ll be fun.
Yep. All of them. They’re considered a joke at first, but things get a lot more serious when they elect a Pope to run the US. China holds out for a while, but things turn south for them when they legalize conversion to the White Lords’ Church faith.
So yeah. Jesus was brought back to life by an alien. Muhammad spoke to an alien named Gabriel. The Buddha is actually an alien inhabiting a human body (they can do that in the story).
They should watch evangelion then.
Technically, Gilead is a breakaway state from the US ☝️🤓
I absolutely can’t wait to see the carnage in the stock market tomorrow morning
I just got out of the stock market recently to get myself a bigger apartment. Felt really insecure about the decision until now (budgeting is tight). Feel for everyone that have their savings in this dumpster fire.
There’s only so much I can pump 😩
Deny. Defend. Depose.
Great! Medicines will now be even more expensive for patients in the United States. Genius!
As always, the misery is the point!
Because ozempic is just too cheap.
Novo produces a lot of Wegovy/Ozempic in the US, in North Carolina specifically. But I don’t know if it’s enough to cover US demand, probably not.
From ingredients imported mostly from China, if it is like about any other medication.
Maybe. Outlines how this whole tariff thing is dumb in a globalised economy.
Basically all basics for US manufacturing comes from India or (mostly) China. The US does not produce the screws that keep American products together, nor do they make the myriads of little electronic parts found on any electronics board. Without nails from China, the American stick&cardboard houses would not hold together.
That includes generics, majority of them are created in india
Great. As if the American people weren’t already paying too much for medication. Now, they’re going to be paying more. And Trump is going to blame it on tariffs—that he started.
He’ll be blaming it on the retaliatory tariffs.
His tariffs are the best/perfect, it’s all these unnecessary tariffs these other countries insist on imposing in response that are to blame 🤹♂️
This mother needs to be jailed for murder
Alot of generic drugs come from India.
Virtually all chemical compounds used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in the world come from China and India in massive, massive quantities
Dental silicas do. Some come from the UK. Titanium dioxide from Czech. Sodium saccharine/Saccharine sodium from China.
Found this recently and I’m betting it ties into this somehow: H.R.661 - MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/…/661
Introduced in House (01/23/2025)
Maximizing Israel-U.S. Research Advancement and Collaborative Leadership in Emerging Medical Technology Act of 2025 or the MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement a program for the United States and Israel to collaborate on developing and delivering health care products and services. The program must include coordinated activities in specified areas, including research and development, use of innovative technology, intellectual property protection, regulatory harmonization, disease prevention, and biological product manufacturing. The bill authorizes HHS to establish a joint United States-Israel Health Care Collaboration Center in the United States to leverage existing expertise for advancing the program’s purposes.
That’s good medicine wasn’t expensive enough already in this country.
Great. Now that I finally got my 100$/mo med that I need.
How do I find out if my meds are made outside of the US?
I mean, if domestic pharmaceuticals raise their prices to match the foreign ones to pocket the profit… does it matter?
My problem is finding my medications. It’d be nice to know where they come from.
The man is literally an existential threat to Americans
Krasnov Russian asset
l i t e r a l l y
There’s nothing the markets love more than uncertainty.
Isn’t Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?
Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D
Fresh off the ozempic fields.
<img alt="" src="https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E03/Jy3cUWp66yx2JpH6O2P66cc2cL0=.gif">