{"id":82155,"date":"2026-06-12T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/82155\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:01:51","slug":"roche-chair-accuses-us-government-of-drug-price-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/82155\/","title":{"rendered":"Roche Chair Accuses US Government of Drug Price \u2018Blackmail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/ROP:SW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Roche Holding AG<\/a> Chairman Severin Schwan accused the US government of using heavy-handed tactics over drug prices and warned it could have a negative long-term impact on Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Swiss drug company agreed a pact with President Donald Trump\u2019s administration to lower drug prices for some Americans in late 2025, in exchange for a three-year reprieve from threatened tariffs. Roche was one of several pharma companies that made similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-19\/nine-drugmakers-strike-pricing-deals-with-trump-to-avoid-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">pledges<\/a> after being targeted by Trump\u2019s Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roche Holding AG Chairman Severin Schwan accused the US government of using heavy-handed tactics over drug prices and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[124],"tags":[11813,351,2566,42345,197,70,10622,304,10825,134,473,16571],"class_list":["post-82155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-roche","tag-c-suite","tag-china","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-drug-companies","tag-europe","tag-government","tag-industries","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-policy","tag-roche","tag-roche-holding-ag","tag-severin-schwan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116735858782175883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}