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Cost of UK’s drug price deal with US will come out of NHS budget
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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So dumb. Why aren’t you just making your own drugs in the UK? You’d think that relying on foreign countries for your health supplies would be a national security issue.
Cost to setup and then compete, you have to make concessions if you've dismantled your entire manufacturing capacity decades ago.
That being said, this is all smoke and mirrors: they could easily pay for the new drugs without having to cut services. When it comes to war, the government is more than happy to pull out a blank chequebook.