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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And it's not a good thing.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And these have all been, you know, those were all taboos for every administration, Democratic, Republican.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

There was little incremental things that you could do.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

under democratic administrations, but nothing like this has ever happened.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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,

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

is we've been paying for the last 40 years the highest price in the world for medicine.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Why is that?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We do buy more drugs than anybody.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

But it's because we pay higher prices.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We pay two to three to five times what they're paying in Europe.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

For example, and President Trump likes to talk about this, Ozempic, the list price was $1,350 in America.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

You could buy the same drug in any pharmacy in London for $88.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

And it's made in the same factory in New Jersey.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2461 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

They would set the price.