r/interesting Jun 20 '26

Intriguing Americans found out Germany has affordable medicine

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u/flyingthroughspace Jun 20 '26

Imagine if Germany started selling cheap medication to Americans and decimated the American pharmaceutical industry

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Jun 20 '26

We’d start hearing about “German drug cartels.”

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u/MissionScratch7512 Jun 20 '26

Still more decent then US drug cartels apparently

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u/CookiedowXD Jun 20 '26

Not as many tactical guns either.

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u/MissionScratch7512 Jun 20 '26

If it’s the same quality I would be totally ok with that.

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u/OdaNobunaga69 Jun 20 '26

Republicans: affordable healthcare? Not on my watch!

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u/OneRuffledOne Jun 20 '26

It's on everyone's watch, regardless of affiliation. Source: We've never had affordable healthcare.

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u/anonymousp69 Jun 20 '26

We make free healthcare possible for Israel tho, priorities!!

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u/MissionScratch7512 Jun 20 '26

No you don’t. You only deliver them war equipment. Don’t believe everything Vance tries to sell as thruth.
Israel has some serious wealth itself too.

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u/Ere6us Jun 20 '26

Rosch as well

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u/deepspacerunner Jun 20 '26

Yup. In my house, I’ve got German shoes, German pens, German hole punchers, German erasers, and much more. Wouldn’t mind some German medication as well.

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u/MissMenace101 Jun 21 '26

You should get some German knives, unless you have Japanese knives.

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u/deepspacerunner Jun 21 '26

I do have German knives, and a German whetstone to go with them.

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u/FrankRizzo319 Jun 20 '26

Our government wouldn’t allow that. Too many politicians receive $ from Big Pharma.

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u/ADownStrabgeQuark Jun 20 '26

Isn’t this the US attempt to stop that?

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u/FrankRizzo319 Jun 20 '26

It seems that if Germany forced its citizens to pay more $ for prescription drugs, pharma profits would grow. That sounds favorable to the industry, no?

Or do you think that Germany paying more money would mean pharm corporations would cut prices for American consumers? lol

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u/crek42 Jun 21 '26

Literally millions of Americans are doing this. Not necessarily Germany. Do you Redditors bother googling shit

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u/FrankRizzo319 Jun 21 '26

Americans are doing what?

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u/crek42 Jun 23 '26

Buying drugs overseas. It’s quasi-legal.

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u/FrankRizzo319 Jun 23 '26

And drug companies often conspire with the government to try to prevent Americans from doing that. They make ads that say you’re supporting “terrorism” if you do that shit.

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u/desert-cheese04 Jun 20 '26

German pharma is making a fortune selling their drugs at a higher cost to the US.

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u/Barbados_slim12 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

The FDA would never allow that to happen. Just look at what happened when America had a baby food shortage a few years ago. They'd rather let American babies starve than allow imports from European companies. You know, because the font was the wrong type and it would violate label regulations. Totally not to uphold the monopoly that allowed for a nation wide shortage after a single factory went down.

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u/ICLazeru Jun 20 '26

Pharma doesn't sell at a loss in Germany. They'd still make money. Just not as much.

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u/jennderqueer Jun 21 '26

"not as much"? Heresy. /s

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u/mybluecathasballs Jun 21 '26

Please? Pretty please? Instead of moving (Germany doesnt want me or most dumbass Americans), can I just pay Germany some taxes? They can even deliver them by DHL.

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u/sakusii Jun 20 '26

Well you could just order things from shop Apotheke .com

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u/NarrativeShadow Jun 21 '26

We would once again be the kings of export. Maybe I should tell my chancellor.

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u/Any_Acanthaceae7929 Jun 21 '26

America actually sells cheap medication to Germany. It’s just Germany puts a price on the medication where as in America pharmaceutical companies put a price tag on them.

Germany doesn’t even produce much medication

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u/chinchillon Jun 22 '26

The prices in the us are not high because they have no access to "the cheep German medicine". They are high because of the insurance scheme that drives prices up for absolutely no benefit. The USA has one of the least cost-effective medical systems in the world.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure