The National Taxpayers Union, a conservative lobby group, called consumer drug price controls in countries such as Australia “socialised medicine”
That’s riiiiight! Who’s a clever little conservative? Is it you??
Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’
Submitted 2 days ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to australia@aussie.zone
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princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 day ago
clever little conservative
don’t even joke about that
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
shirro@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Being a sovereign nation should mean we can tell the yanks they can fuck off.
Unfortunately they have their corporate and defence hooks into us really badly.
If the current US administration has any global impact it is this: We all need to wake the fuck up, diversify our strategic relationships, and reduce our dependence on the US.
Substance_P@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“In Australia, prices for pharmaceutical medicines are capped at $31.60 if listed on the PBS. A 2024 report by research organisation Rand found that US drug prices were, on average, about 370% higher than in Australia and 278% above the OECD average”
The American pharmaceutical system is broken. The U.S. spends significantly more on developing drugs than other developed nations, partly due to unfettered regulation. This spending is attributed to exploitative capitalism and a lack of price controls. The fragmented nature of the U.S. healthcare system created this monster, and now these mega-corporations can’t stop the “sugar high.” It’s total BS.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Importantly, what we here as consumers pay for medications is NOT what the drug companies are paid for them by the government. Every single scrap of reporting I’ve seen on this has neglected that fact. My ADHD meds cost the government over $100 per month.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 days ago
That’s right - the Australian government has bulk purchasing power and that’s a big motivator for pharmaceutical companies. When companies get their medications on the PBS sales in Australia skyrocket.
There are some very expensive drugs on the PBS simply because it makes financial sense from a cost of care perspective for the government to do so.
CoolThingAboutMe@aussie.zone 2 days ago
US-manufactured products should be allowed to compete on an equal basis with Australian-produced goods, consistent with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and US-Australia Free Trade Agreement,” he said.
Research and development tax concessions in Australia, France and Spain were described as conferring advantages to local firms “that the United States is hard-pressed to match”.
Um, isn’t this what the US is ostensibly trying to do to everyone else with their tariffs? Advantage home grown products over international ones?
Ita almost as if it’s not supposed to be free or fair, it’s just about the US extracting as much money from everyone in the world that they can get away with.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 days ago
You’re turning your country into a big fat carcinogen factory and want to fuck off the world leaders in cancer treatment. Spectacular self pwn.
eureka@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Sometimes I want to live in this horror world that conservatives have conjured up to whine about. Socialised medicine, now that’s a lovely idea.
I know we have some subsidies and medicare and all that, and that’s a start, but oh just imagine if it were everything!
vividspecter@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
Bring on socialised dental. The horror when our entire population has healthy teeth!
TassieTosser@aussie.zone 2 days ago
What would actual socialised medicine look like anyway? Pharma nationalised and rolled into CSIRO?
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
That’s some weak sauce Sky News. And they know it.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Party of parrots. All they know is screeching and shitting.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Even Trump’s allies don’t know what’s going on … does he even have allies? I think it’s just El Salvador, Israel, Hungary, and Vietnam. Israel is the only one who they seem to tell anything.