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When President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0announced\u00a0“TrumpRx” in early February, a weight I\u2019ve carried my entire adult life suddenly lifted from my shoulders. The website offers life-saving medications at much lower prices than normal,\u00a0based on the president\u2019s promise\u00a0to give Americans the same prescription drug costs as patients in other developed countries. I can personally attest that such equal treatment \u2014 a policy known as “most favored nation” pricing \u2014 is urgently needed for people who struggle with chronic disease.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had debilitating asthma since I was a child. I\u2019ve been able to manage it thanks to a prescription drug which blocks lung inflammation and keeps my airways open. The few times I\u2019ve gone off the medication, I\u2019ve ended up in the emergency room, unable to breathe. That nearly happened four years ago in what I thought was the worst possible place \u2014 on the other side of the world, unable to contact my doctors or go to my pharmacy.<\/p>\n

My family and I were in Italy<\/a>, on a trip to honor my mother. She had recently been diagnosed with cancer and my brother and I scheduled the trip in between her chemo treatments, when she would be well enough to travel. She had always wanted to go there with us. But in our rush to get two families and three little kids packed, I accidentally grabbed a nearly empty inhaler.<\/p>\n

I realized my mistake a few days into the trip, when I looked at the inhaler and saw that I only had two doses left. I wasn\u2019t just worried about my health, though, of course, that was paramount. I worried how I\u2019d afford the drug<\/a> if I even found it in Italy.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve organized my professional life around access to insurance that covers my medication, given its longstanding retail price $600 for a month\u2019s supply. For 25 years, I\u2019ve grappled with denied coverage letters, premium tier prescription charts and the constant worry that we would have to cut back on necessities to get my medication. At the time, in Italy, I was already paying a few hundred dollars a month for the drug \u2014 a lot, but a bargain compared to its normal price.<\/p>\n

But I had no choice. I had to get my medication. After a few minutes of searching, I found an Italian pharmacy across town. I walked there immediately, trying to control my racing thoughts of what might happen. I knew that if I couldn\u2019t get the drug, I couldn\u2019t get safely back to the U.S.<\/p>\n

Fifteen minutes later, in tears I walked out, drug in hand. It cost me only 30 euros<\/a> or about $35.<\/p>\n

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At first, I was both relieved and grateful. But by the end of the day, I was scratching my head. Why was it $600 in the U.S. while Italians could get it for next to nothing? In the days that followed, I discovered that the answer is beyond complicated.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s affected by everything from a lack of price transparency<\/a> to the meddling of middlemen who jack up costs. It\u2019s also true that foreign countries have been negotiating the prices of prescription drugs for decades, forcing Americans to cover the enormous cost of pharmaceutical development while they pay far below market prices.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, the system doesn\u2019t work for Americans<\/a>.\u00a0Brand name prescription prices\u00a0in the U.S. are more than four times higher than prices in other wealthy countries.\u00a0As many as 18 million\u00a0Americans have struggled to buy the prescriptions they need in recent years.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m now using a generic version of the drug that costs significantly less. But that doesn\u2019t change the fact that I, like many other Americans with chronic disease, have paid through the nose for decades on end, only to find the medication I needed in Italy for what seemed like pennies.<\/p>\n

Trump is fighting to fix this broken system. Before launching TrumpRx, he\u00a0reached 16 deals\u00a0with pharmaceutical companies to charge most-favored-nation prices<\/a>. As a lifelong conservative, I’m typically uncomfortable with this kind of government intervention in the market. But other countries have already intervened and people like me have paid the price.<\/p>\n

If pharmaceutical companies need the extra money, they should take it up with other countries that negotiated them down first. Then they could recoup their costs on the backs of others, not simply by charging more in the U.S. Bottom line, there\u2019s no good reason why 340 million Americans<\/a> should pay so much more than hundreds of millions of people who live in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n

I will always be grateful that my medication was so affordable in Italy back in 2022. It may very well have saved my life. But I\u2019m even more grateful that President Trump is finally lowering prices for every American here at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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