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On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:21:24 +0100, Klaus KragelundAtlanta, Georgia
<klauskvik@hotmail.com> wrote:
On 20-03-2025 15:33, Bill Sloman wrote:Where was that?I may be being unfair here, but the latest claim amongst American who>
like Trump's tariffs is that the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits
Scheme is a non-tariff barrier to trade. They may be the lunatics
involved here rather than Trump himself.
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The Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme buys medicines which have
been approved as effective and cost-effective, and sells them on cheaply
to patients whose doctors have prescribed the medicines.
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It's no kind of barrier to trade - anybody who wants a particular drug
can buy it directly from the manufacturer at a price they negotiate with
manufacturer.
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They won't have the buying power of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme,
which buys in much larger volumes, and employs people who know exactly
what they are buying, and who the alternative suppliers are.
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When I read the New Yorker I see ads for medicines aimed directly at
consumers. I don't see them in periodicals aimed only at the Australian
market, not because they are illegal, but because not enough people in
Australia would act on such advertisements.
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We all know that if a drug is safe and effective we will be able to get
more cheaply through our doctors and the Australian Pharmaceutical
Benefits Scheme.
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There is a lively market for illegal drugs in Australia - tests on the
outflow from our sewage systems demonstrate that a lot cocaine and other
illegal drugs do get consumed here,
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/12/australia-drug-use-
wastewater-testing-methamphetamine-increase
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So the US pharmaceutical industry wants to operate with the same kind of
freedom as illegal drug traffickers. They wouldn't sell as much - the
Pharmaceutical Benefits scheme sell to patients at less than purchase
cost, on the basis that curing patients is cheaper than treating them
indefinitely, so we buy more than we would if individual patients had to
pay the full cost - but they might be able to extort higher prices from
patients who could afford to pay.
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I was in the US last week for a conference.
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The mood has really shifted to the worse. Lot's of talk on the radio on
people going bankrupt, how to survive the coming years, DOGE violating
constitutional rights.
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Before going, I had to check my text messages and online social
profiles, to be sure I had not made a comment about Trump. (many
examples of people send to prison for just not linking Trump)
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More homeless people than I have seen before (I have been going each
year for 15 years).
Most of the peope I saw that was sleeping on the street was black people, many with obvious mental problems>There are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the USA now. Some
I hope it gets better soon and this is just a temporary situation.
have found housing - competing with everyone else - and some have not.
Illegal drugs don't help. Controlling the border will help both
problems.
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