President Trump

Drain the

 Medical Industrial Complex

Swamp

Lesson of EpiPen Scandal: Government Is Not Your Friend

Americans pay four to 10 times more for prescription drugs than what citizens of other developed countries pay. It’s true that drug prices must be high enough to pay for research and development, but there is no reason that only American consumers should bear that cost. We effectively subsidize the generous national health systems of Canada and other western countries by allowing them to get away with paying much lower prices that don’t reflect the much greater R&D costs of the drugs they use. 

In short, not only do western countries, like the NATO alliance, not pay their fair share of their own defense costs, but they don’t even pay their own health care costs. That cost is paid for indirectly by the U.S. government through Medicare and Medicaid as well as the American consumer and their employers. 

This once again proves that government regulation of health care is the problem, not the solution. We need transparent markets with an end to the discriminatory pricing that hurts American taxpayers. This corruption works to the advantage of politicians and regulators who live off the scraps of political contributions and cushy jobs provided as a virtual bribe, in my opinion, by the pharmaceutical industry. 

President Trump must do what his predecessors in office and Congress have failed to do. 

He must use 15 USC chapter 1 and have the DOJ enforce these 100-year-old statutes to criminally prosecute the executives of the pharmaceutical industry if they charge Americans exponentially more than what our western allies and Canadian neighbors pay. He doesn't need an act of Congress to do that. 

 Robinson-Pattman Act

Clayton Act

Sherman Anti-Trust Act  

If the ruinous civil fines don't change their behavior, perhaps seeing their peers do the perp walk in handcuffs will. 

And don't forget, with "single payer," where there is no competition against a corrupt government, our situation would be even worse. That truly would be putting the fox in charge of the hen house.

 Make America Great

7

Sisters

Of

Institutional Change

1.)   End the Federal Reserve

2.)   Repeal 17^th Amendment – Reinstate Federal Senators chosen by State Legislators.

1. Term Limits – Constitutional Amendment

A. Two six year terms for Senators

B. Three terms House of Representatives

3.)   Repeal 16^th Amendment – Income tax replace with value added tax.

4.)   Pass the Balanced Budget Amendment

5.)   Exit the United Nations

6.)   Reign in the Medical Industrial Complex

a. Enforce Anti-Trust Laws

b. Pass Legislation for re-importation of ethical drugs

7.)   End Federal and Private Student Loans

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