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Trump claimed he has negotiated with drug companies to cut prices by ‘as much as 400, 500 and even 600 percent’
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Lutnick tarjosi yhtä vakuuttavaa matematiikkaa FOX:illa puolustellessaan 500% alennusta. Kauppaministerillä oli kyllä päivän selitykset Trumpin prosenteille:
“Well, if you cut something by 100 percent, the cost goes down to zero,” Roberts said. “If you cut it by four or five or 600 percent, the drug companies are actually paying you to take their product. So it raises the question, how much of last night's speech was hyperbole and how much was fact?”
Lutnick let out a laugh during the question and said “no.” He said that the figures “depend on when you look at it.”
“What he's saying is…if a drug was $100 and you bring the drug down to $13 right? If you're looking at it from $13 it's down seven times…” Lutnick attempted to explain in a rambling response.
“It's 700 percent higher [than] before, it's down 700 percent now, right? So $13 would have to go up 700 percent to get back to the old one,” Lutnick continued. “So it all depends on when you look at it.
“You could say it's down 87 percent or you could say…it would have to go up 700 percent to be the same one. So it just depends on what you look at it,” he repeated. “But basically what he's saying, and we all know what he's saying, is we are hammering the price of drugs down.”
