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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
(24,543 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
(37,725 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
(24,543 posts)My PCP just wont prescribe the generic.
Johnny2X2X
(23,436 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
(6,347 posts)WestMichRad
(2,651 posts)How is this not extortion?
dalton99a
(90,412 posts)roamer65
(37,796 posts)If I get tariffed, I get retribution.
My retribution is easily in 5 figures now since January.
Torchlight
(5,720 posts)and on the 3rd, call another one of his abject failures a 'success'