Would US drug prices drop?

美国药品价格会下降吗?

World Business Report

2025-09-30

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U.S. pharmaceutical lobby group PhRMA has said that it would launch a new website in January to help patients buy prescription drugs directly from manufacturers, bypassing pharmacies. This comes after a deadline set by President Trump, asking the big pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily lower their prices. Gideon Long will hear from two patients about the struggles they face paying their medical bills. And one of the world’s biggest video game publishers, Electronic Arts, is being taken into private ownership in a record-breaking leveraged buyout. A Saudi-backed fifty-five billion dollar purchase values the California-based firm at a twenty-five per cent premium to its closing New York share price on Friday. (File photo: Abiraterone acetate cancer drug (AA250). Tablet of the prostate cancer drug abiraterone acetate, marketed under the name Zytiga.)
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  • Big Pharma in the firing line.

  • We pay much higher for drugs than the rest of the world.

  • We subsidize the rest of the world.

  • We're not doing that anymore.

  • In some cases,

  • the list prices for drugs that drug companies set are many times those in other countries,

  • like 10 times.

  • It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Gideon Long.

  • The deadline is up on Donald Trump's demand for drugmakers to slash the cost of prescription medicines in the US.

  • We'll hear what that might mean for the industry and patients.

  • Plus, video games maker Electronic Arts,

  • the company behind EAFC and Need for Speed, is being taken private.

  • And the French government tackles ageism in the workplace.

  • Welcome to the program and thanks for your company.

  • We're starting tonight by talking about the cost of medicine in the United States