Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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So now the incentive is the pub owner to go out and police all the conversations so that if anybody if anybody crosses a guardrail, you know, the pub owner now has to go in and interrupt them.
And it's not a good thing.
I mean, I've been surprised by how much President Trump has supported me on this stuff because, you know, I'm going after the biggest, you know, big pharma, big insurance.
And these have all been, you know, those were all taboos for every administration, Democratic, Republican.
There was little incremental things that you could do.
under democratic administrations, but nothing like this has ever happened.
The agreement we made with the pharmaceutical industry could not have happened under any other president, the MFN agreement, the most favored nation, and the way that that worked,
is we've been paying for the last 40 years the highest price in the world for medicine.
And so we have 4.2% of the world's population here and over 70% of pharmaceutical profits and revenues come from the United States.
We do buy more drugs than anybody.
But it's because we pay higher prices.
We pay two to three to five times what they're paying in Europe.
For example, and President Trump likes to talk about this, Ozempic, the list price was $1,350 in America.
You could buy the same drug in any pharmacy in London for $88.
And it's made in the same factory in New Jersey.
And the reason that was allowed to happen is the Europeans just said, we're not going to allow, we're not going to pay anymore for it.
They would set the price.