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Brexit Endgame

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You're way ahead of the pack, but there is 45x45 snapping at your heels.
Yet you were back in next to no time.

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I'll have to check the details, but I'm pretty positive the USA has some protectionist laws on pharma pricing, it goes along the lines of it being impossible to get FDA approval unless the pricing is similar to existing drugs on the market for the same condition. Effectively pegging the prices artificially high.
As to US access to supply the NHS, that already exists and has for many years, but the NHS has some value criteria to obey in their procurement rules, while the prices are pegged high the suppliers don't get the contracts.
High drug prices in the US mainly have to do with the market there being actively rigged. Doctors get under the table payments from drug salesmen to prescribe certain expensive brands, drug store operators get payments from drug suppliers to put certain brands on the shelf and not stock cheaper alternatives, health care providers are forbidden by law from negotiating discounts collectively, etc. The buyers are fragmented and have no buying power, while a few big sellers dictate pretty much any price they want.

Americans like to think they have first class health care, while what they actually have is third world levels of health care corruption.

This "access to the UK health market" phrase is code for changing the laws in the UK to forbid the NHS from negotiating drug prices. Instead the American drug companies want to negotiate with each individual hospital so they can gang up on them to boost prices like they do in the US, bribe doctors to push certain brands, pay off drugs stores to lock discount brands out of the market, etc. The NHS's role would be limited to paying whatever the drug companies wanted to charge.

The drug companies tried the same thing during US trade negotiations with Canada, so I've heard it all before. The US got told to ram it, and other US economic interests didn't want to give up a trade deal just so a handful of drug companies wanted to line their own pockets, so it got dropped.

The political system in the US is corrupt and revolves around money and whose pockets get lined by which corporation. If you think that you can buy off one of them and that will be the end of it, then you'll be in for a shock. The rest of them will pile on you like a school of piranhas looking for their share as well. It's like paying off mobsters. They'll keep coming back and wanting more.
 
why?

will we have to pay more for a MickyD as part of a FTA?

If you willingly get a burger from that place you should be beaten with a rubber hose.

Trump owes certain sectors like farmers favors. So he will lobby on their behalf.
Depending on what the UK offers, in return the pharmaceutical companies might be sent to the back of the bus.
So if the UK has some decent alternates on the table it could be something to skirt around. But if you don’t have things to offer then it is pointless to try and negotiate a serious deal.

I do agree with some of what Terminal mentioned.
 
And the rest of us are still waiting on some sort of benefit of Brexit. You know, how brexit proved to be beneficial to someone other than Farage and Johnson. The odd £39m a week to the NHS.

Sustainable cod from the english ocean.....


Nice innuendo that Farage and Johnson are corrupt.

Back it up with some facts, theres a good boy.
 
There is a definite feeling of deja vu all over again here!

But our remain friends told me, that it was lies and we get most of it back.......

Exactly. Halfwits argued that the UK received more funding than it put in.

Your remain friends are either as thick as bricks or outright liars.

Lot's of halfwits

Been posted before, but obviously needs repeated.

Not once has the UK received more than it has paid in.

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We got our country back...boo hoo, passport to ruin and everything...sniff. Job done....well apart from cleansing millions of foreign looking people from this great nation. Then it will be all worth it. Got it!

Bird brains....

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Surely not? This can't be the £8.6 billion a year we paid to the EU and that the Remain camp kept arguing during the referendum campaign was absolutely dwarfed by social security spending and was an utterly trivial cost far outweighed by the economic benefits of belonging to the EU.

Can't see what all the fuss is about - if belonging to the EU is so great, the member states should be happy to stump up the extra cash to cover the gap left by the UK's departure.

Wordsmith :smile:
.....but but it is great for net receivers.....
 
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