Aditya Chakrabortty
speaker
493 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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He wants his cut.
And the health economists, I'm an economics guy, and the health economists I was talking to were pretty worried about it.
Whether they were in think tanks or academia, they were worried.
And there was all kinds of suggestions about what it might cost for the NHS.
Donald Trump had already said that America was paying too much for its pharmaceuticals and he wanted essentially America to be paying less than other countries.
So there was quite a lot of signs that things were wrong.
But when I listened to what government ministers were saying, whether it was Patrick Vallance, who speaks on science, or Wes Streeting, the health secretary, it was more as if it's been a tremendous triumph.
And I was really struck by the difference between the two because economists don't tend to make numbers up out of air.
And politicians generally tend to have some kind of relationship with reality.
And yet here we were.
with this weird situation in which West Reading was going around saying he didn't recognise any of the figures that the various think tanks had put forward.
Yeah.
Let's start with the government position.
West Reading went on Radio 4, actually, just after the deal was signed.
And as the health secretary said, yes, it will end up costing the NHS more money.
It will cost a billion pounds between now and 2028.
He said two other things.
He said beforehand the NHS is not on the table in any trade deal.
Well, clearly he's just accepted that now it is.
The other thing he said was this money is not coming out of NHS budgets.
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