India, May 14 -- As the trade war is on a hiatus, Donald Trump claimed that for decades, Americans have unknowingly funded a system where they pay up to ten times more for prescription drugs than people in other European countries. The scale of this disparity is huge; a breast cancer drug that costs $16,000 in the U.S. is only $1,600 in Sweden. Same drug. Same company. Same factory.

Trump called this a "scam for America's beneficiaries," a long-running scheme where U.S. patients end up subsidising the rest of the world's medicine.

"President, I just paid $88 for this fat drug I take. In New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on?" ne particular story he shared

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