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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump to impose 100% tariff on imported, patented drugs effective Oct 1st.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/us-to-impose-100percent-tariff-on-branded-patented-drugs-unless-firms-build-plants-locally-trump-says.html
MontanaMama
(24,547 posts)Basic meds like Synthroid are imported from New Zealand. I buy my rx from a Canadian pharmacy because I can get 90mdays worth for around $45. In the US the cheapest is Costco but its still $100 for 90 days without insurance and $150 with insurance. Im so sick and tired of the game.
Ms. Toad
(37,752 posts)(I take it and liothyronine). You might want to ask your doctor to switch. It's $10/90 days through goodrx. You may need to go through a couple of extra visits until you get settled on the generic- but it's not over of those meds where brand name matters (outside of a transition period)
The ones I worry about are the ones for which there is no generic available.
MontanaMama
(24,547 posts)My PCP just wont prescribe the generic.
Johnny2X2X
(23,458 posts)To me, this tells me some drug makers in the US bribed Trump to put a tariff on their competitors so they can now rape the American consumer even more.
Prairie Gates
(6,374 posts)WestMichRad
(2,668 posts)How is this not extortion?
dalton99a
(90,452 posts)roamer65
(37,801 posts)If I get tariffed, I get retribution.
My retribution is easily in 5 figures now since January.
Torchlight
(5,785 posts)and on the 3rd, call another one of his abject failures a 'success'