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Should the Government be included in the placement of consumer prices? Fox News Digital asked people from Houston in Texas in Detroit, Michigan to weigh after the president Donald Trump Ordered pharmaceutical companies to reduce medication costs this week.
IN Signed executive command On Monday, Trump ordered drug companies to reduce prescription drug prices to be the same with the lowest prices in other developed countries or confronted with consequences.
“The principle is simple – regardless of the lowest price paid for a cure in other developed countries, this is the price that Americans will pay,” Trump said in the White House on Monday. “Some drugs and pharmaceutical drugs and prescription pharmaceutical drugs are reduced almost immediately by 50 to 80 to 90%.”
People across the nation who talked Fox News Digital He responded positively to Trump’s plan to reduce consumer prices, but had mixed reactions to the inclusion of the Government to achieve this goal.
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President Donald Trump signs the executive command at the oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, Thursday, January 30, 2025. (Bonnie Cash/Piss/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“The reduction of drug costs will help the elderly and people who are caused by certain income and have medical needs,” John said of Houston.
Krishna from Detroit said he personally knows people who have to buy their medicines to rescue abroad because it is “a dozen costs in the United States”.
“The prices of drugs in Canada, in Mexico, are far away, lower than in the US,” Emmanuel of Houston agreed.
“Our health care, we say it’s the best in the world, right? But medicines, people can’t afford it,” he added.
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President Trump has announced that he plans to sign the Executive Command this week, which he says will almost immediately refuse the prescription drug costs between 30-80%. (Getty Images)
Trump said the command would save the money of Americans, stopping the US to “subsidize” foreign countries’ health.
“We subsidize someone else’s health care, countries where they have paid a small part of what for the same cure for what we pay much, many times more and more will no longer tolerate profits and prices from the price of Great farm“Trump said in the White House on Monday.
“Although the United States is home only 4% of the world’s population, pharmaceutical companies earn more than two -thirds of earnings in America. So, think of this with 4% of the population, the pharmaceutical companies make most of their money. Most profits from America. That’s not a good thing,” Trump continued.
Those who spoke with Fox News Digital supported Trump’s plan to take over Big Pharma, while others were overpowered in the Federal Government that regulated prices for consumers.
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Medicine bottles are driven by a belt at the pharmacy warehouse in Florence, NJ, in July 2018. (AP/Julio Cortez)
“I think when the government gets too involved in markets, I think things will make things worse than they really are,” Alec of Detroit said. “I think usually when the markets themselves do things, it usually is better. Obviously this is not always the case with every market, such as the medical industry. So, I think in some cases they should be minimally involved. Some cases should not.”
“I just think less government is better than a lot of government,” James said of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Others were fine with this as long as the government was minimally involved.
“Not too much, maybe some basic controls just so that things don’t get out of hitting,” Karisa said, also from Knoxville.
“The minimum type of control, because I believe we need some kind of freedom so we can sell what we need,” said Aiden of Detroit.
Others said the government should step in to prevent companies from using consumers.
“I suppose, yes, because you don’t want corporations to be the public,” Wyatt said of Detroit. “So if the prices are raised, the government should be involved and determine the fair price for things.”
“The government should be involved in everything. They should get up from her Hiney and do something about everything,” Olanwonzer replied from Houston.
“The more freer the market, the more people hurt individuals and individual consumers in America,” Krishna said. “I think the goal of the company number one is to make as much money, so it doesn’t really matter how much money, how much wealth can get out of the American general. And so regulate it is obviously the best for both companies as well as consumers.”
People from all over the nation responded to the order of President Trump to reduce drug prices. (Fox News Digital)
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Trump’s Executive command He says that if drug manufacturers do not comply with the offer of Americans comparable prices with those in other countries, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will “propose rules that impose prices for the festive nations; and take other aggressive measures to significantly reduce the drug costs on the US consumer and completed anticontaneous practices.”
Fox News’ Diana Stancy and Greg Norman contributed to this report.
