By saying the admin should not use all available leverage points and levers to force them to lower prices, you're arguing for continued pharma profiteering, aren't you?

By the way, the Biden admin did exactly this through a lever contained within the Inflation Reduction Act for Ozempic, among others. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1195984752/medicare-drug-pric...

Here, there is no threat that the drugs will be banned from the market completely. The threat is that the drug companies will face high tariffs that reduce sales. That’s a much less extreme threat than what the European countries use as leverage.

Been getting this on mobile but desktop is fine. No idea what’s going on.

But anywho, try the official archive site: https://web.archive.org/web/20260403005348/https://www.bbc.c...

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