It would be a small revolution in the pharmaceutical world in the United States. President Donald Trump announced that he will sign a decree on Monday 12 May which, according to him, will reduce prices of prescription drugs in the United States from 30 % to 80 %.
“They will increase worldwide to compensate and, for the first time in many years, bring equity to America! »»wrote Donald Trump in a message posted Sunday evening on his network, Truth Social. This measure will consist in ensuring that “The United States pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest price in the world”said the Republican, ensuring that this drop would apply “Almost immediately”. Questioned by the France-Presse agency, the White House did not give more precision about how this measure will work.
The American president has long been the pharmaceutical industry to lower the prices of drugs, among the highest in the world and much more expensive than in border countries (Canada and Mexico) and Europe.
According to a study by the RAND Corporation, the United States pays an average of 2.5 times more for prescription drugs than France for example. Donald Trump was committed to reducing this gap during his presidential campaign. In mid-April, he had already signed a first decree ordering his administration to work on a series of measures to lower the prices of medicines.
Among the actions listed: improving the negotiation process between public health insurance and pharmaceutical groups or the possibility offered to States to import drugs directly from foreign countries to lower costs.
The prices negotiated by Joe Biden will take effect in 2026
Negotiations by public health insurance for over 65, Medicare, on the prices of certain drugs are long -term processes and reduced prices negotiated by the former president, Joe Biden – who also led an offensive in this area – will only take effect in 2026.
From his first mandate (2017-2021), Donald Trump had taken measures to reduce prices, already with the displayed objective of aligning them with those the lowest applied in the world. But this plan had produced little effect in the face of the opposition of the pharmaceutical industry.
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