investigation by DOGE found out that other nations that were paying $100 dollars for a certain drug, Americas were paying $1000 dollars or more for the same drug.
In America, pharma supplies is a free market, they can charge what they want to the everyday person. Those companies petitioned Trump to place a tariff on Australia because they are unhappy they cant charge us what they can charge American citizens.
Just for reference, Americans pay the most for medicine - as a proportion of GDP than any developed country, yet have the lowest life expectancy of any developed country.