The president, Donald Trump, offered this Thursday a period of 60 days to 17 pharmacists to guarantee the best prices for new medications or face otherwise “all tools” that their administration will mobilize for the benefit of families.
Trump sent a letter to the managers of these companies, including Eli Lilly and Company, in which he warns them that from now on “the only thing” that will accept manufacturers is a commitment that offers citizens the end “of enormously inflated prices and that of free use of US innovation by European countries and other developed countries.”
Among its demands, according to the letter read by the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, it is included to extend the “nation more favored to the Medical Medical Plan, return the additional income obtained abroad to US patients and taxpayers and allow direct purchase at more favored nation prices.”
The Republican leader recalled that May 12 signed an executive order that asked these companies to reduce the prices of medicines in the country within 30 days.
The objective is to ensure that Americans pay the same prices that other developed nations enjoy.
“Currently, brand medications in the United States are, on average, up to three times more expensive than anywhere else for the same medications. This unacceptable burden on working -worked families ends with my administration,” says their text.
If they refuse, according to this letter, the Executive will display all measures at their disposal “to protect US families from continuous abusive practices in fixing medications.”
“Americans demand lower prices in medicines and need them today. Other nations have taken advantage of our innovation for too long and it is time for them to pay what corresponds to them,” concludes the letter.
