川普政府誓言解決藥價過高的困擾
America will not be “cheated” by foreign countries that “extort” unreasonably low drug prices from U.S. companies, declared President Donald Trump on Friday.
Rolling out an ambitious blueprint to significantly cut the cost of prescription medication here and abroad, Trump announced he is directing U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to make it a priority to prevent foreign countries from forcing American drugmakers to provide medicines at drastically lower prices than in the United States.
“It's time to end the global freeloading once and for all,” Trump said during a White House Rose Garden event.
Trump did not specifically name any countries, but according to a report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers profit margins on brand-name drugs in the United States are four times as high as in more regulated markets, such as major European countries and Japan.
Earning more profit in such countries presumably would give drugmakers greater maneuverability with their bottom line to charge less in America.
Trump also singled out what he called greedy companies and middlemen, who he declared had grown rich through “dishonest double-dealing,” vowing his administration is now “putting American patients first.”川普總統星期五宣佈，美國將不再受那些強迫美國製藥公司把藥品價格壓到不合理的低水平的國家的“欺騙”。
川普總統宣佈了在美國以及國外大大降低處方藥價格的計劃。他指示美國貿易代表萊特希澤把防止外國強迫美國製藥公司把價格壓到低於美國市場價格作爲當務之急。
川普總統在白宮玫瑰園說：“現在要永遠終結全世界的吃白食。”
川普總統沒有具體提到任何國家，但是根據白宮經濟顧問委員會的一份報告，美國市場的品牌藥價格比在一些歐洲國家和日本最多高出三倍。
如果在這些國家的利潤有所提高，製藥公司就有可能在美國降低這些藥的價格。
川普總統還抨擊他所稱的貪婪公司和中間商。他說，他們通過不誠實的“兩面吃”交易，大發橫財。川普總統誓言他的政府要以“病人優先”。
