Case study: Florida.
What's going to happen to its millions of cancer patients who can no longer afford medications.
Election results: Wikipedia
Headline: Florida Bulldog, 7/17/2025
Noreen Marcus reports:
In truth, though, she and countless other seriously ill patients are casualties of an erratic global trade policy. It seems like every day, President Donald Trump is threatening another outsized “tariff,“ a misnomer for consumer tax.
Recently he floated a 200 percent tax on pharmaceuticals. Then on Tuesday Trump announced a “very low tariff” on medicines starting next month will be followed by a “very high” one in a year.
The medical establishment and patient advocates are calling for exemptions and sounding an alarm they hope the public will recognize and heed.
The impact will be enormous. In Florida alone, with a population of 23.37 million, an estimated one in five residents, or more than 4.5 million, live with cancer. Over two million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. this year. [emphasis added]
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