>The United States has launched a trade investigation into Germanyover its plans to cut spending on pharmaceuticals.>U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer says the probe is looking intowhether Berlin's drug pricing policies are unfair or discriminatory towards American companies.>The investigation comes under Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Actand could lead to tariffs on German exports if Washington finds evidence of unfair practice.>Germany is facing growing financial pressure on its public health care systemwith a projected budget shortfall of around €20 billion.>To help control the cost, Berlin has proposed measures that would require pharmaceutical companiesto offer larger discounts on expensive new drugs.>However, the Trump administration argues that such policies allow countries like Germanyto access medicines at much lower prices,>forcing American consumers to shoulder a disproportionate share of the cost of developing new medicines.Just two months ago, Washington used these exact same trade threats>to pressure the UK into a historic deal,forcing the British government to effectively double its spending on new medicines>to avoid American tariffs.https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xah8e3mhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/19/us-tariff-probe-germany-drug-pricing-policies-mfn.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-launches-section-301-probe-into-germany-over-drug-pricing-2026-06-19/https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/06/19/us-launches-trade-probe-into-germany-over-medicine-prices
>>62404112pretty sure the SCOTUS ruled most of trump's tariffs illegalalso pretty sure germany knows this
>>62404118>Just two months ago, Washington used these exact same trade threats>to pressure the UK into a historic deal,>forcing the British government to effectively double its spending on new medicines>to avoid American tariffs.
>>62404127But cant Germany rely on the EU therefore saving itself?
>yurope and the rest of the world just use all the fucking money the US gives to import niggers and mediocre health care like the leeches they are >can't even use any of the money to fund more research Drumpf is right. You euroniggers are parasites
>>62404280Bros...
Boehringer Ingelheim is scaling back planned R&D investments in Germany in response to the proposed German legislation. I find this strange since it's a German company. I thought this was about American pharmaceutical companies.
I posted some stuff in these threads. Hopefully someone finds the parallel I'm drawing to the fish and wine conflict interesting, which AI agreed with and gave a good elaboration on, see picrel and these threads.>>>/news/1520712>>>/pol/537508422I think this is about the state using business as a power tool, just like The East India Company and The United Fruit Company. Hopefully we can discuss that.
>>62404112Why do you post like a fuckin sped?
>>62404320I cropped out the irrelevant parts.
>>62404112american pharma shareholder jew wants more shekels
>>62404112good, yuropoors are gonna pay up
>>62404338>>62404343Brainlet discussion
>>62404333>>62404346Ok but how is this 100 year old paper relevant?
>>62404118Trump can just use military aid to Ukraine as leverage to force the EU countries to do anything he wants
>>62404112Kek i have this feeling that soon the USA will start ignoring patents and allow vsrious things to be copied without being able to get sued by foreign companies
>yuropoors think they're allowed to lower the price of their medicineLOL
>>62404364>Frito Pendejo stare
>>62404383I was hoping for actual discussion.
>>62404112The government is a client just like any other, but because it's a bigger client than a bunch of shitty hospitals they have more negotiation power and get better deals. I find it amusing braindead drumbers who run their mouth about free markets and business all day can't understand something so basic.
>>62404320It's about the american government acting retarded. Using tariffs to damage strategic competitors like china would be a good use of them. But if you really are concerned about trade deficits, as they claim they are, all you need to do is stop deficit spending and pretending all that foreign money you're borrowing goes nowhere. In this particular case they have this idea that pharma companies charge americans more because europoors pay less, and not because their prices are negotiated by weak fragmented players that take kickbacks. If prices in europe go up, the profit margins of the pharma companies go up, and americans keep paying the same because they have a lump of fat in the place where you'd expect to find their brain.
>>62404440Yeah but the US government is threatening with tariffs on German goods if they put a lower price. Shoving the medicines down their throat.>No you can't have these drugs for $10, pay $20 or we'll buy fewer of your BMWs.As I said it's exactly like the fish and wine conflict.>we don't want to buy your wine>then we won't buy your fish>ok, just kidding, we want to buy your wine
>>62404455I reckon it's more about a bunch of poor and starving pharma executives showing up in the white house (or the office of one of the illiterate clowns he has for ministers) and crying that the evil german government was trying to take their lunch money, and because drumber is such a charitable soul and hates the german chancelor because he called him a pathetic loser that got beaten up by a bunch of ragheads in iran, he decided to take up their cause, dog bless his soul
>>62404448They say the motive is that Americans pay more for drugs, yes. But I think that might just be rhetoric to get the American populace to feel that it's right. I think it goes deeper. What politicians say they're doing and what they're actually doing are rarely the same thing.
>>62404464refer to>>62404462they got lobbied to cuck germany, it really is that simple with these people
>>62404280lmao
>>62404468I think there was lobbying yes but I think these things are a two-way street. Copying a post I posted in the /pol/ thread:this is about the state using corporations as a power tool. Same thing that happened with The East India Company and The United Fruit Company. Business (corporations) is the engine of the state. I think the alcohol situation I mentioned a hundred years ago is a perfect analogy for what's going on. Imagine a country has a lot of vineyards. One country is trying to ban alcohol. The first country imposes tariffs in retaliation. Then the wine begins flowing again. The wine export brings money into the state, even if the vineyards are privately owned. This is how corporations and the state are two sides of the same coin. The state uses the vineyard as a power tool, the vineyard uses the state to get the wine sold, a two-way street. That's the same thing with this situation. Germany wants to keep drug prices low, like Norway wanted to limit alcohol consumption. The exporting country wants to increase their own wealth and power. Same dynamic.
Are we finally learning that 'free healthcare' isn't really free?
>>62404484in my country we get taxed heavily, to pay for 'free' health care, but it wasn't enough, so the government introduced a 'temporary' levy in 1984 (now 2% of your income) to pay for said 'free' health care and then this still wasn't enough so a 'temporary' surcharge was introduced in 1997, additional to the 'temporary' levy, for those who could afford private health insurance but did not have it.
>>62404112who the fuck cares what germans have to say
>>62404496oh I forgot to mention that the premiums for private health care are greater than the 'temporary' surcharge so people are opting to pay it instead of getting private health insurance and now the entire insurance industry is at risk of collapsing due to the 5.5 million boomers (21.5% of the total population) all starting to require increasing health care at the same time and not enough people paying into the private health system to cover the ever increasing costs.
>>62404366He has already dumped the costs of supporting Ukraine onto European countries. There is virtually nothing more to cut, unless he wants to cut C4ISR support and thus throw the war. Despite the impression some people get from his public rhetoric, he doesn't want to do that.
>>62404468>>62404464>>62404480It's not just corporations. It's the entirety of the pharma industry. You have-Private hospitals-Health insurance companies-Pharmaceutical companiesThey're all working together to squeeze the average US citizen for as much cash as possible. That's why you have insane prices for a single bandaid in a hospital.By lobbying and pushing for higher prices on pharmaceuticals in Germany or the entire EU, the government won't be able to keep up the free healthcare thing (which is already unsustainable btw) and force people to resort to private healthcare (insurances/hospitals which is already somewhat a thing in EU). Once that happens it will facilitate-More private healthcare/insurance companies-Higher cost of treatments-Bigger profit margins for pharma companiesIt's not just about allowing some pharma companies to charge more, it's about trying to spread the infection that is the private healthcare system in the US to the EU, a largely untapped market. It's painfully obvious.
>we dont have money>Lets force them to sell it for cheaperIts that easy huh?
>>62404533>muh one-way streetDidn't read because you didn't read jack shit of my posts.
>>62404484More like, the free market is bullshit, and has always been.
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