UK Set To Cave To Trump On NHS Drug Prices
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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The UK to hike drug prices to fight tariffs
Plus: Kemi’s speech at Tory Conference, and is Nigel Farage a fascist?
With: Michael Walker, Helena(@NoJusticeMTG), Nick Dearden & James Meadway
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
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| 0:15.8 | Welcome to Navarra Life. I'm Michael Walker. I'll be joined a little bit later by Helena, aka No Justice MTG. |
| 0:25.2 | Lots to talk about tonight. The IMF and Bank of England have joined the chorus of institutions warning that we could be in an AI bubble, which could be about to pop. |
| 0:36.8 | We'll also discuss whether Nigel Farage is a fascist |
| 0:39.6 | or a socialist. Prominent figures have made both claims in the last week, and both, I think, |
| 0:46.5 | imply or have different analysis of modern Britain. So we'll discuss that. As ever, if you'd |
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| 0:55.1 | Navaradia.com forward slash support straight into our first story. Donald Trump wants you to pay more |
| 1:01.8 | for drugs. Starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize the health care of foreign |
| 1:07.7 | countries, which is what we were doing. We're subsidizing others' health care. |
| 1:11.9 | Countries where they paid a small fraction of what, for the same drug that what we pay |
| 1:18.7 | many, many times more for, and we're no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging |
| 1:24.0 | from Big Pharma. |
| 1:25.4 | But again, it was really the countries that forced Big Pharma to do things |
| 1:31.6 | that, frankly, I'm not sure they really felt comfortable doing. |
| 1:36.5 | So that was Donald Trump speaking in May this year. |
| 1:40.3 | His beef was that Americans pay much more than Europeans for the same pharmaceuticals, for the same drugs. |
| 1:45.9 | On that front, he is correct. |
| 1:47.8 | Americans pay 125% more for the same drugs than Germany, 155% more for drugs than in the UK, and 158% more for the same drugs than in France. |
| 1:59.7 | That data actually from 2018, but the newer data is exactly the same. |
| 2:03.6 | They just made a nice graphic that I wanted to use. The reason for that is fairly simple. In Europe, |
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