Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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And that was the maximum.
There's a lot of drugs they don't have.
There's a lot of cancer drugs they don't have in Europe because they just wouldn't pay the price.
And so President Trump, you know, every president has vowed to stop this.
Clinton tried to stop it.
And all of them tried, and Biden all said, we're going to get rid of the MFN price, and none of them did anything on it.
And President Trump literally called me sometimes once a day, called late at night, 1130 at night, and, you know, say, where are you on MFN?
And we ended up getting the, it seemed to me even, it seemed insurmountable.
But he said, I'm going to use tariffs.
I'm going to force the Europeans to raise their drug prices.
And because he didn't want toβwe had enough leverage on the pharmaceutical companies because of our Medicaid and Medicare programs.
We could pretty much force them to lower their prices.
But it would put them out of business.
And he wants us to continue to be the center for innovation in this country.
And he also wanted the companiesβ
or all their production so that we're making all the drugs here and they're not making it elsewhere in the world.
And so we sat down with them for months and we came to agreements with 16 of the 17 pharmaceutical companies.
Now Americans are getting the lowest prices in the world.
If somebody lowers the price in Europe, we get that price or lower.