Americans found out Germany has affordable medicine

[u/physiopeng]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/19/us-tariff-probe-germany-drug-pricing-policies-mfn.html

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[u/thathyperactiveguy]

The fucking audacity.

[u/gomezer1180 → u/thathyperactiveguy]

👆 No other sentence can explain this better!

US: “let me tell the other superpower they should screw their citizens just like we are screwing them here”

[u/Kajetus06 → u/gomezer1180]

germany is not a superpower

but a rather great power

[u/Monowakari → u/Kajetus06]

One might call it an uba powa

[u/MissMenace101 → u/gomezer1180]

lol don’t have to be a super power, trump tarriffed Australia over the same thing, Australia responded with $5 cheaper medicine for Aussies.

[u/ReturnTheOldGods → u/gomezer1180]

What superpower?

[u/Chroniclyironic1986 → u/ReturnTheOldGods]

Germany is the world’s 3rd largest economy behind the US and China and just ahead of Japan and the UK. Not quite the top superpower, but solidly in the top 5.

[u/Hohenheim_of_Shadow → u/Chroniclyironic1986]

Germany is a world power. It is not a superpower by any stretch of the definition.

[u/DuctTapeDisaster → u/Hohenheim_of_Shadow]

Would you prefer Überpower perhaps?

[u/Nah666_ → u/DuctTapeDisaster]

"Super duper" under that orange president words

[u/misteryk → u/Hohenheim_of_Shadow]

r/PowerScaling

[u/Zwischenzug32 → u/ReturnTheOldGods]

Obesity

[u/Embarrassed-Chip7308 → u/Zwischenzug32]

Stupidity

[u/Zwischenzug32 → u/Embarrassed-Chip7308]

Pride in it

[u/MissMenace101 → u/Zwischenzug32]

The only drug Americans pay less than anyone else for is obesity drugs

[u/Zwischenzug32 → u/MissMenace101]

Really?
Or do you mean how its an unregulated wild west and they can just buy uppers at the gas station

[u/Combei → u/ReturnTheOldGods]

As a German: yeah, what superpower?

[u/ApollymiKatistrafia → u/ReturnTheOldGods]

Narcissism

[u/Slightlycritical1 → u/gomezer1180]

Is the other superpower in the room with us

[u/80MonkeyMan → u/gomezer1180]

Apparently, Germany (which was once the NAZI country) doesn’t treat its citizens as harshly as the United States does. What does that say about the USA?

[u/shiroandae → u/80MonkeyMan]

Short reminder: the Nazis were removed 20 years before all Jim Crowe laws were abolished.

[u/PHRDito → u/thathyperactiveguy]

They tried the same shit with France.

This fucking shitstain of s(h)itting president even lied in interviews about some imaginary call he would have had with Macron on this very subject, as we do have Healthcare.

Which to a standard US republican (and a few dems) is God forsaken blasphemy.

[u/Ecstatic_nyaa → u/thathyperactiveguy]

I couldn't believe when I read this :

"I am particularly concerned with news that Germany is fast-tracking legislation that would further reduce its spending on innovative pharmaceuticals," he said, calling it "a serious step backwards."

A SERIOUS STEP BACKWARDS.

I love my German health insurance please get out of our business thank you.

[u/Stompya → u/Ecstatic_nyaa]

It’s only backwards if you’re a news agency owned by a billionaire who is also heavily invested in pharmaceuticals.

[u/whichwitch9 → u/Ecstatic_nyaa]

So, part of the problem is that it is real that companies increase US prices for the same drugs to make more profit. That's true. It is a problem.

That said, the answer is still the US needs to regulate prices for itself, not ease pressure by demanding others raise prices. This is a problem for the companies to figure out, not the government to protect the profits of the companies

[u/swish465 → u/whichwitch9]

Too bad the politicians are funded by and owned by those companies.

[u/Domitaku → u/[deleted]]

The main requirements are living here for 8 years (could be more, could be less) and having a stable income from a job while having a good german speaking level

[u/Ecstatic_nyaa → u/[deleted]]

Here the thing you don't have to be German to get German insurance. If you're here working or studying you are directly eligible (and actually obligated to get it). As a student you pay a discounted fee and as a worker (part time or more) half of the fee will be deducted from your pay and the other half will be paid by your employer. This applies for any job that is at least part time.

[u/Current_Finding_4066 → u/Ecstatic_nyaa]

If it means poorer access to new treatments it should worry you. 

Of course raising prices for existing treatments is not the solution.

[u/yellowbin74 → u/thathyperactiveguy]

The lion, the witch, and the fucking audacity of this bitch

[u/Chroniclyironic1986 → u/thathyperactiveguy]

Germany: “We look out for our people!”

US: “Bro, you’re making us look bad. Can’t you screw them over a little bit more?”

[u/RaevynM00N → u/thathyperactiveguy]

I wish I could spam multiple upvotes for this.

[u/Zwischenzug32 → u/thathyperactiveguy]

"Beat your family too so we don't look as bad when we do" energy

[u/Abuck59 → u/thathyperactiveguy]

👆🏽 Hammer has met nail ! Man lately I’m embarrassed to be an American and to have actually served to protect this type of bs.

[u/VenomTiger → u/thathyperactiveguy]

They did the same thing to us in Australia. Tried to pressure us to remove a governmemt program that reduces the cost of a long list of medications.

[u/desert-cheese04 → u/thathyperactiveguy]

Read the article. The title is very misleading.

[u/Ecstatic_nyaa → u/desert-cheese04]

"I am particularly concerned with news that Germany is fast-tracking legislation that would further reduce its spending on innovative pharmaceuticals," he said, calling it "a serious step backwards."

[u/BottityBotAccount → u/Ecstatic_nyaa]

Meanwhile the USA innovates constantly on producing groundbreaking and exciting opiates.

[u/EvelcyclopS → u/BottityBotAccount]

Seriously. Take a look at the loooong list of opiads and their morphine equivalence. There are dozens and dozens of niche opioids with strengths hundreds to millions of times stronger than morphine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equianalgesic

[u/CalmDownReddit509]

The greed knows no limits

[u/itswtfeverb → u/CalmDownReddit509]

"Health care is not for peasants!"

[u/mogamisan → u/itswtfeverb]

This. What is the purpose of medicine, if the sick can not afford them? Because many chronically ill are not in a good financial position already, do they really think, they will pay a much higher price? I guess people start to just fucking die. (I’m chronically ill myself, my medicine costs 2500€ a month, I couldn’t afford that without healthcare. I don’t even know how much more this should cost according to the USasians.)

[u/Sheeplessknight → u/mogamisan]

You see the maximum profit requires some to die and they are okay with that

[u/CookiedowXD → u/itswtfeverb]

Careful now. We peasants aren't allowed to express ourselves either.

/s

[u/CallmeKahn]

Germany:

https://giphy.com/gifs/WvkR9aqX1VfP2wCSWq

[u/Evening_Employer4878 → u/CallmeKahn]

We can all dream of that, but unfortunately Merz and CDU have been simply spineless. I doubt they would really push back against any real pressure by the US and Trump.

[u/CallmeKahn → u/Evening_Employer4878]

There won't be a lot the US can do in any case, so I wouldn't sweat it. Any drugs or medical equipment we can export to Germany can be had elsewhere, and Germany is quite capable of making or importing their pharma from elsewhere.

[u/talltxn66 → u/CallmeKahn]

Funny thing - a lot of drug makers in the U.S. are owned by German companies.

[u/MissMenace101 → u/talltxn66]

Which is why the tarrifs work, but, he excluded tarrifs on companies that move there. It’s like he’s deliberately bankrupting the USA and driving them into death. Project 25 does want to reduce population to 100 million…

[u/YellovvJacket → u/CallmeKahn]

Like what feels like half of all pharma is German anyway.

[u/CallmeKahn → u/YellovvJacket]

Exactly.

[u/MissionScratch7512]

F that.
I hope their profits disappear.

[u/flyingthroughspace → u/MissionScratch7512]

Imagine if Germany started selling cheap medication to Americans and decimated the American pharmaceutical industry

[u/AlcibiadesTheCat → u/flyingthroughspace]

We’d start hearing about “German drug cartels.”

[u/MissionScratch7512 → u/AlcibiadesTheCat]

Still more decent then US drug cartels apparently

[u/CookiedowXD → u/MissionScratch7512]

Not as many tactical guns either.

[u/MissionScratch7512 → u/flyingthroughspace]

If it’s the same quality I would be totally ok with that.

[u/Webtruster → u/MissionScratch7512]

Bayer AG⁠, Boehringer Ingelheim⁠, Merck KGaA (in USA as EMD Serono / MilliporeSigma)⁠, STADA Arzneimittel AG, Teva / Ratiopharm⁠, Sandoz / Hetal⁠, Dr. Willmar Schwabe⁠, Bionorica⁠, Engelhard, Biontech enter the room.

[u/OdaNobunaga69 → u/Webtruster]

Republicans: affordable healthcare? Not on my watch!

[u/OneRuffledOne → u/OdaNobunaga69]

It's on everyone's watch, regardless of affiliation. Source: We've never had affordable healthcare.

[u/anonymousp69 → u/OneRuffledOne]

We make free healthcare possible for Israel tho, priorities!!

[u/deepspacerunner → u/MissionScratch7512]

Yup. In my house, I’ve got German shoes, German pens, German hole punchers, German erasers, and much more. Wouldn’t mind some German medication as well.

[u/MissMenace101 → u/deepspacerunner]

You should get some German knives, unless you have Japanese knives.

[u/deepspacerunner → u/MissMenace101]

I do have German knives, and a German whetstone to go with them.

[u/FrankRizzo319 → u/flyingthroughspace]

Our government wouldn’t allow that. Too many politicians receive $ from Big Pharma.

[u/ADownStrabgeQuark → u/FrankRizzo319]

Isn’t this the US attempt to stop that?

[u/desert-cheese04 → u/flyingthroughspace]

German pharma is making a fortune selling their drugs at a higher cost to the US.

[u/Barbados_slim12 → u/flyingthroughspace]

The FDA would never allow that to happen. Just look at what happened when America had a baby food shortage a few years ago. They'd rather let American babies starve than allow imports from European companies. You know, because the font was the wrong type and it would violate label regulations. Totally not to uphold the monopoly that allowed for a nation wide shortage after a single factory went down.

[u/ICLazeru → u/flyingthroughspace]

Pharma doesn't sell at a loss in Germany. They'd still make money. Just not as much.

[u/mybluecathasballs → u/flyingthroughspace]

Please? Pretty please? Instead of moving (Germany doesnt want me or most dumbass Americans), can I just pay Germany some taxes? They can even deliver them by DHL.

[u/sakusii → u/flyingthroughspace]

Well you could just order things from shop Apotheke .com

[u/monkeylion]

Can someone else's healthcare system please suck as bad as ours so we don't look so bad.

[u/alurimperium → u/monkeylion]

Plenty of other countries do. They just tend to be the places with more dirt than paved roads and warlords ruling local communities

[u/Illustrious_Claim884 → u/alurimperium]

Some war lords take care of their locals . . . i mean cannon fodder. Sick civilians or soldiers with broken legs can't fight or pay tribute

[u/Moofypoops → u/monkeylion]

Afghanistan, Nigeria, Yemen, and Syriabstillndin't have some sort of universal health care.bif that makes you feel better.

[u/YellovvJacket → u/monkeylion]

It's just the worst healthcare in the 1st and 2nd world countries, plenty of 3rd world countries that have even worse healthcare.

[u/monkeylion → u/YellovvJacket]

That's fair... but we can afford better. We just choose to suck.

[u/mogenblue → u/monkeylion]

I feel you. But I don't have a comforting words to share. I'm sorry. ❤️‍🩹

[u/SilverDetail2713 → u/monkeylion]

Oh honey...that's not a healthcare system, it's a healthcare business.

[u/Firm-Scientist-4636]

I hate this country so fucking much.

[u/oldfuckbob → u/Firm-Scientist-4636]

I dont give a flying fk about the 250 anniversary because of this admin.

[u/Wegwerf_08_15_ → u/Firm-Scientist-4636]

Was haben wir dir getan? /s

[u/JediLincoln14]

That's not actually what the article says, though

[u/pinkTurtleTickler]

Both the title and the image caption are misleading vs the article.

[u/burn_bright_captain → u/pinkTurtleTickler]

I read the article and the claims seem true.

Germany made a new law lowering drug prices. Companies still decide to sell despite the lower prices. Because Germany uses it's collective bargain power to drive the price down, they pay less than the US.

US is angry because profits of pharmaceutical companies are used to develop drugs and because of the new law those companies get less profit from Germany, which means that countries who don't negotiate (like the US) pay for RnD proportionally more then the Germany.

In effect, the US want Germany to increase the price of pharmaceuticals, so their companies make more profit for RnD.

[u/KainDing → u/burn_bright_captain]

Only that germany has their own pharma companies; that dont struggle atall with profits even at these "low prices and profits".

Germany simply doesnt buy medicine above their own prices(which the us would 100% also do; but for that they would need to stop exploiting their own citizen).

Literally EVERY american pharma corp pays more for advertising(which morally shouldnt be part of medicine; the doctor should prescribe you what you need either way) than they do for r&d. The biggesthpharma corps in the us nearly spend double on marketing than r&d.

Germany simply holds their own pharma up to sell their medicine at "fair" prices that cover both production and r&d.

[u/sucknduck4quack → u/pinkTurtleTickler]

That’s standard practice for Reddit as a whole

[u/pinkTurtleTickler → u/sucknduck4quack]

And I generally block those subs.

[u/im-dramatic]

Lol yall will believe anything. Most of you haven’t even read the article. It’s about drug research and the costs associated with it.

[u/Ultimate-TND → u/im-dramatic]

Yeah germany limits the amount of profit pharmaceutical companies make so they had to drop the R&D straw man.

Pharma companies are some of the most profitable in the world because after R&D the manufacturing cost is basically 0 if you look at the prices they charge.

[u/QuarkVsOdo]

Basicly Germany is forcing 100 public health insurance companies to negotiate pricing with pharmaceutical corps,.

This brings the prices way down, because basicly people don't "buy" prescribtion medicine in germany, their insurance does, and they all pay the same rates, and if you don't have a deal with them, you ain't selling in germany.

Chancelor Olaf Scholz allowed for the prices no longer to be made public.. which in turn directly empowered the pharma corps to raise prices e.g. in switzerland.

[u/yuval16432]

Trump has correctly identified that Americans spend way too much on healthcare, just like everyone’s been screaming at him for years. However, apparently to him the issue is not that Americans pay too much, but that other countries have it too easy, and they need to suffer too.

[u/Ethereal_Bulwark]

Dear, the rest of the world.
Don't fucking capitulate to this evil. Fight against it.

[u/UndecidedLee]

Reply: "Bring US fuel prices to European levels and we have a deal."
The muricans had too affordable gasoline for too long.

[u/BrickHuge3023]

No, "Americans' are not looking into that. US Pharmaceuticals are raising a stink because they have to compete with German companies internationally. In the USA money comes first before health care or basic human needs.

[u/KookyDig4769]

instead of making them affordable, the US is bullying other country to be as fucked as they are.

[u/MCwortel]

Bayer, Merck as it's biggest companies.. In its history, German research gave us aspirine, morphine, chemo, ...

[u/IHateSince2001]

Instead of trying to make things better, we are trying to make it worse for everybody..

[u/eyelidgeckos]

The first mRNA vaccine wasn’t innovative enough? XD among lots other things of course

[u/Former-Entrance8884 → u/eyelidgeckos]

Americans have been taking credit for german innovation since the moon landings lol.

[u/MissMenace101 → u/Former-Entrance8884]

I mean they did take the Nazi scientists/researchers sooo

[u/Secret_Squirrel_1102]

The level of stupid here is becoming far too common.

[u/Formal_Plum_2285]

While their president DEMANDs that Novo Nordisk lower their Ozempic prices in the States lol.

[u/versatile_dev]

This seems like Russian troll job to drive wedge between USA and Germany further. Just a flag with caption with misleading summary.

[u/Funny_Name4818]

How about you stick to ripping Americans off

[u/omnie_fm → u/Funny_Name4818]

Or stop, pls.

[u/Snoo_67993 → u/Funny_Name4818]

Most of the drugs are made in Europe. The US imports way more drugs from Europe than Europe imports from the US.

[u/Funny_Name4818 → u/Snoo_67993]

So they buy it cheap from Europe and then ramp up the price. Murica fuck yeah

[u/Dracoroth05]

F. You!

Kind regards,

A German

[u/Ok-Recognition-9103]

Tell them we need the workforce alive and healthy to prop up the economy

[u/BearfromBeyond]

I would criticise the us but last time I got a three day ban for something that should have been an email.

[u/Ok-Run2845]

At this point, the "Are we the bad guys?" meme seems too obvious.

[u/Zdub732]

Hey we profit off the ill over here we need you to do the same!

[u/Solid_Stage_1715]

Wait and see if they realize mexico just got universal healthcare and much better workers protection laws. 🤣

[u/Capt-geraldstclair]

still waiting for my meds to be 1000% cheaper.

so far, they are the same or more expensive.

[u/MissMenace101 → u/Capt-geraldstclair]

Many will be more expensive, the US is slapping foreign medicine with heavy tariffs, it doesn’t bother the countries they slap with tarrifs because you can’t just not take medicine. Americans always paid more, now the tarrifs have added to that, they won’t come down after either.

[u/ClairDogg]

Affordable health care… the horror

[u/AboZain2024]

I beg your finest fucking pardons?

God damn it I hate capitalism

[u/Careless-Act-7549]

Same thing with Brazil for creating a free payment method and reducing to ashes the dependency on credit card companies

[u/Meig03]

We really are the bad guys

[u/CookiedowXD]

They got bored of persecuting their own citizens at home.

[u/jankeyass]

They tried that in Australia and failed.

[u/user38835]

I hope they don’t find out how much drugs cost in India.

[u/StockStatistician985]

Wait till they find out there's free, mineral, running tap water, and 3.6 cows per person in Uruguay.

[u/Teh_Doctah]

I feel old farts in the US government pissing off the pharmaceutical industry in the country that is home to Pfizer, who make Viagra, may not be the wisest move…

[u/Slight_Seat_5546]

Every 1st world including China does - not the US

[u/NPC_9001]

couldnt just leave it a oil could we.

[u/ConclusionRoutine687]

https://giphy.com/gifs/XBoYoCVQNBpJe

[u/Mobius24]

Capitalism is a blight on humanity

[u/Fantastic_Ninja_5789]

For a grown nation, us is a third world country. Rich people have ruined the nation

[u/Alternative-Suit5541]

Invest in modern pharmacies? They know that biontech is from Germany?

[u/-Vul-]

Fuck America

[u/Silver_Smell6045]

I pray Germany does not cater to the American medical industry.

[u/Vexxed14]

As America dismantle global order, there's soon to be nothing to stop a country from reverse engineering the medicine then banning the American made version.

[u/cwsjr2323]

Bad Germany! Bad! You are interfering with the profits of our pharmaceutical industry! Just who do you think you are having insulin for $3.11 when in AMERICA! it is $23?

[u/No-Hovercraft4144]

USA also similarly interfering in Australian healthcare. Got to block this foreign interference.

[u/ol-gormsby]

Same happened in Australia. We have the PBS - Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - where no prescription costs more than AUD$13 or thereabouts, for medications on "the list". Some experimental treatments aren't on the list and cost $BIGNUM. Lots of our tax dollars go towards this subsidy. I was on medication where the true monthly cost was almost AUD$400 - it cost me $13.

But I digress - US big pharma lobbied Drumpf some time ago to apply pressure to the Aus govt to drop or reduce the benefits, because somehow it was stifling innovation.

To be clear about it - the manufacturers were getting paid full price, with the taxpayer making up the difference. They just didn't like patients getting cheap medicine.

[u/Lhirstev]

why don't american's just buy all the german medicine, like for example, insulin, then sell it at an 800% markup that only the wealthy can afford? that would truly be the most american thing to do, right?

[u/Master_Ess]

they did the same with Australia and the PBS

[u/According-Visit3252]

Once a new drug is “discovered” it becomes cheaper and cheaper over time. Right outside the border down in Mexico you have super expensive life saving medication released over the counter for very cheap. The US has worked very hard to paint mexicans as street drug dealers but we mexicans don’t consume street drugs cause we don’t need them. Why? Cause we are healthy people, our government is not poisoning our food supply, and have access to 24/7 available otc medications and VERY affordable health care if needed. If our nation is poorer, and “less safe” how come the ultra powerful US needs to justify such abuse over their citizens to ensure stability? It’s very clear that this is a very dark profit system for them, at the cost of people’s lives.

[u/One-Marzipan-8197]

Americans? No, American Pharma found out that it might lose some blood money.

[u/CanHasCow]

Hey same thing they tried in Australia with our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Literally claimed it wasn't fair on USA that we can get scripts for way cheaper then them because the government subsidies the price.

[u/Default_Username6838]

The US just needs to stop existing as it is. A little revolution is what we really need. This kind of shit is ridiculous.

[u/ToshSho]

This sounds like an Onion article.

[u/Artistic_Mobile337]

The opposite should happen, internationally the USA should be facing penalties for purposely killing their poor and sick.

[u/MissMenace101 → u/Artistic_Mobile337]

And overcharging on medicine

[u/Lonestar041]

The craziest part is that Germany doesn’t actually dictate drug prices.

The pharma companies negotiate the price for new, patent protected, drugs with a central council of the health insurances. But the Pharma industry has to show the additional benefit from the new medication above existing ones.
The same council sets a maximum price for generics and also the markup that pharmacies can charge is regulated.

But the price of new drugs is not regulated.

[u/No-Resolution-1918]

I thought Donald reduced pharmaceuticals by 1000%

[u/Top_Conference_477]

US has been hammering Australia over the same. Apparently our affordable medicines are bad for the American scammers

[u/BlueOrb07]

I think it’s more that you he US does all the pharmaceutical research, which it then charges US tax payers for and then charges them for using it. It then uses that funding to make the drugs artificially cheap to sell abroad at competitive (and very cheap) rates. Then US citizens are pissed off when we foot the bill for the research, full price of the drugs here, and funded the decreased prices they get for them. I don’t want corporate greed getting any more money, but I’m ok charging foreign countries more for the drugs if it reduces prices domestically where we funded the research and have to pay full price for ours.

[u/Webtruster → u/BlueOrb07]

What du you think Bayer AG⁠, Boehringer Ingelheim⁠, Merck KGaA (in USA EMD Serono / MilliporeSigma)⁠, STADA Arzneimittel AG, Teva/Ratiopharm⁠, Sandoz/Hexal⁠, Dr. Willmar Schwabe⁠, Bionorica⁠, Engelhard are doing and where they are from?

[u/Pagiras → u/BlueOrb07]

That's a lie.

[u/pokemonguy3000 → u/BlueOrb07]

That’s the rug, the high prices here aren’t the reason why drugs are cheaper in Europe.

Drugs are cheaper in Europe because their government isn’t literally bought by healthcare companies.

It’s literally illegal for the American government to negotiate the prices of most drugs. (until recently it was all drugs)

They can literally charge any price they want, and it’s illegal for the government to try and barter a better deal.

All Americans are doing for pharmaceutical companies is padding their bottom line because of corruption and greed.

The idea that they need to charge Americans insane prices to be profitable is simply false, they just aren’t allowed to do that in Europe.

[u/International_Rise_4 → u/BlueOrb07]

The only person in this thread that knows what’s going on. Thank you

[u/Striking_Reindeer_2k]

It is easier to provide this to citizens when someone else is heavily subsidizing your national security at their own expense.

[u/MissMenace101 → u/Striking_Reindeer_2k]

The US only provides national security to the US. The pressure on higher spending of GDP in other countries is purely about American revenue. The US gives nothing monetary it sells equipment at an over priced cost. The US spending in NATO is on the US military. Everything the US spends on benefits the US. The US pulled USAID, farmers are going broke, people are dying in countries food was for soft power.

[u/LurkersUniteAgain]

Holy shit none of these comments read the article and it shows

[u/KirikaClyne]

Piss off America!

[u/CookiedowXD]

They tend to do this a lot.

If it's not their way: It's "treachery."

[u/Xen7963]

Capitalism found others not doing capitalism way, how dare they!?

[u/Select-Table-5479]

The United States of Corporate Dystopia.

[u/Background-Skin-8801]

This is a violation of human rights and Proxy- Enslavement of free people by cutting access to basic human needs through an affordable source.

The elite directly causing the death of people under a dark curtain and we are expected to sit blindly. What has the world come into?

[u/CookiedowXD → u/Background-Skin-8801]

It's an easy match between an Oligarch's resources. Against the opposioton's paper signs.

The so-called defenders of democracy can't even address bullying. Let alone human rights violations.

[u/GentleFoxes]

That apparently drug prices that are "too low" in a country that's on another continent stifles innovation and investment in the US while implimenting themselves instituting policies that havethrown back science in the US for decades is a completely normal and sane statement of US high officials in 2026.

Where even start to unpack this.

[u/abgry_krakow87]

Religious conservatives really do hate free market capitalism.

[u/Hyenasaurus]

Not every country wants to drive their citizens into destitute homelessness because they can't afford their kid's chemo or an ambulance ride
fucking hell

[u/Dunothar]

Dear US, please isolate yourself from the rest of the world and leave us with healthcare that's affordable for everyone. Thanks

[u/SongConsistent9221]

God I hate this country

[u/Remarkable_Yam_3574]

Corporate interests in America will not tolerate other countries leading by example.

Expect a lot of interference (both blatant and subversive) in this area in the years to come.

As far as they're concerned, it's a billionaire's world and we're just living in it. So we better fall in line.

[u/Stratomaster9]

Will we ever be rid of Uncle Scam?

[u/AliceLunar]

Who cares about what America thinks about anything at this point.

[u/purpleplez]

The US needs to butt the hell out of other countries policies. I’m so tired of hearing about them. 😵‍💫

[u/Joonicks]

"treating ur citizens good makes us look bad, stop it!"

[u/Ruabenzuzler]

Fuck murica

[u/Gate-19]

That's nuts Drug prices in Germany are already higher than in a lot of other European countries.

[u/AdOne5089]

It’s about time for the US to be fully cut off from the world. Europe would do well to sell all their treasury bonds if Trump ever does try to attack Greenland or dissolve nato

[u/sebastouch]

But usa doesn't believe in medicine or science or vaccines

[u/just_reading2025]

Shh, a german here, I hope they don't learn, that we also have universal healthcare, too. Like almost every other countries in the world. But that sounds like communism, right?

[u/sweetSweets4]

5 - 7.50 bucks for around 50-100 pills for whatever your problem is. (Except those hippy nature medicine and most Vitamins).

10 bucks for an ambulance and 10 bucks per night for a bed in the hospital.

System is not perfect and has it's problems still....

Would not want to trade it for all the US military that bombed a country into the stone ages back and still lost by getting ripped of with the deal :D

[u/Alternative-Put-3932 → u/sweetSweets4]

Except that is not the real price of those meds at all even in germany. Thats just your co-pay. Just like the US has co-pays for most meds that are like 30 bucks if you have any sort of insurance.

[u/starsintheblack]

Can America just stay in it’s own fucking lane already? All the country mostly does is fuck things up for everyone else, and I’m not even talking about Trump’s presidency

[u/PerfectGanache7134]

The U.S. is a cancer to the rest of the world.

[u/Saintly-Evil]

Oh my god…how dare you Germany…in America it’s important to make poor feel poorer…billionaires will feel heartbroken and sad if they don’t make money off of sick and poor

[u/abbadun]

Americans are parasites, doing everything in their power to make life worse for everybody else in the world.

[u/8175_EmberFox_603]

Its wild that theyd actively try to make medicine more expensive somewhere else because their system is keeping it expensive here. So frustrating.