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    US-Arzneimittelhersteller drohen wegen der hohen Preise, Produkte aus Europa zurückzuhalten

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    1. ErikT738 on

      At some point we’ll just stop respecting American intellectual property law and copy whatever they make for free.

    2. MendaciousFerret on

      The only thing monopolists hate is a monopsony. Set up an EU pharma buying agency.

    3. yezu on

      This all sounds great actually. Europe has its own massive pharmaceutical industry that the US working on cutting off. They can just make these drugs and sell them in Europe to make up for the missed income in the US.

      Alternatively, if EU is chicken shit about IP, India has a massive pharmaceutical industry that makes copies of most drugs, a deal can be made there as well.

    4. AllRedLine on

      Lol.

      Denmark produces 70+% of all the insulin consumed in the USA.

      Threaten to withhold that.

    5. Sciprio on

      Release their patents so others can make generics. Corporations shouldn’t be pushing around countries.

    7. Swimming_Cover_9686 on

      It is up to them whether they sell their drugs to us. It is up to us how much we are willing to pay for it. It is up to us to suspend their IP and make our own.

    10. NewOil7911 on

      The threat is not a real one, considering they would get 0$ instead of what they get right now

    11. Free-Internet1981 on

      Invalidate all US IP, ban the use of Microsoft/Google/AWS at government levels, sell US bonds.

    12. All_Fanastical_Image on

      Also don’t forget the Republic Of Ireland also makes allot of pharmaceutical drugs that the US needs too

    14. mudokin on

      Nice, this is an interesting way to threatening another country.
      You better give us Greenland or we will not give your medicine to our own people.
      Seem logical.

    15. hmmm_ on

      I mean, fine I suppose? No-one is forcing you to sell your product into Europe, but it seems like shooting yourself in the foot.

    16. Durka1990 on

      This is a ridiculous threat, the EU is the world’s biggest market for healthcare and state-of-the-art medicine. The way medical patents work means that these companies only have a couple of years to recoup their investments. Cutting out the European market means that this becomes a lot harder to do, unless the Americans will be paying more. The only reason that these companies think this might work is because it worked on the UK. These companies are bluffing with an empty hand.

      The only sane reason behind this strategy is these companies signalling that they’re really trying to lower prices, but those darn Europeans are preventing it. They’ll go back to the Big Orange Turd and say: „please force the EU to agree to our demands or allow us to raise prices in the US again.“ The end result is self-damaging to the US.

    17. greenpowerman99 on

      In this new economic free-for-all climate, there is very little to stop dug companies cloning their competitors’ products…

    18. tachyon534 on

      Fine, withhold all their ozempic and wait for them to die of the natural American cause of death; morbid obesity.

    20. LogicalReasoning1 on

      It’s already the case that a lot of novel medicines don’t reach European markets because payers don’t consider them worth reimbursing (usually as they are not deemed cost-effective)

      Drugs aren’t getting cheaper to develop so this will continue unless a) us European countries decide we want to spend more on new medicines or b) Pharma is essentially turned into a not for profit business

    22. Informal_Drawing on

      Are we all forgetting this is all due to the Epstein files?

      No?

      Good, good.

    24. ivanvector on

      Seems like a good reason not to respect their patents and start manufacturing locally.

    25. SableShrike on

      Europe:  No longer honors US patents and makes generic versions of said drugs.

      US:  *Shocked Pikachu Face*

    26. witchythuggirl on

      Ireland has the Botox. The administration would fall apart without it.

    27. Lofteed on

      This is not at all the relevant part of what they are saying:

      „These voluntary agreements with the White House require companies to benchmark certain drugs in the US at prices in other developed countries ranging from Canada to Europe and Japan.“

      It means they refuse to bring down prices in the US….

    28. Kathdath on

      If the USA decides to ignore international law, maybe the EU responds by ignoring US drug patents?

    29. MootRevolution on

      Prepare for more of these articles the coming weeks about pharmaceuticals, IT, energy and other essentials. The message from Trump about no longer feeling the need to be ‚peaceful‘ is far more serious than the ravings of a mad man. It’s a declaration that US is prepared to use violence against its allies. Maga’s US will do everything it can to damage Europe and Europeans to get what they want.

    30. thejeejee on

      I don’t think Europeans need the American drug scene this much

      But Americans sure need Denmark’s insulin

    31. Deep_Gazelle_1879 on

      European drugmakers dwarf the American ones, the same way the American tech dwarfs EU’s

    32. ALA02 on

      The US really doesn’t help itself with its image of “total evil” with stuff like this

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