Then you don't understand price controls. Do you have a plan for forcing the socialists of the world to pay market prices for their drugs like we do? Or are you long on complaining and short on solutions? Do you even understand why almost all new drugs are discovered in the U.S.?
You're acting like a democrat who won't institute price controls here, but will allow us to benefit from the anti-capitalist policies of the international socialist regime directly to our north. As long as the ends justify the means, it's ok? How conservative.
Sure, let us buy the drugs from the socialists. The drug companies will raise the prices to the socialist until they reach parody with the non-socialist countries, like ours. If the socialists pay more it should be possible for us to pay less. Socialism, which you apparently lean towards, is when the government tells the citizens what they have to do, such as where and for what price they must buy a product. That is what the US government is doing with it's own citizens. You obviously are against free markets, i.e. markets that are open for anyone to find the best deal, wherever that might be.
Personally, I'm for freedom. It's not my, or my governments, responsibility to assist the pharmaceutical companies by restricting free trade. It is also not my, or my governments, responsibility to force socialist countries to do anything. Their system only works because they are aided and abetted by the dupes in this Country.
And now I'm supposed to feel bad about benefiting from the policies of other countries. I suppose you're against trade with China and Walmart too and that we are all supposed to wring our hands over the low prices brought about by "slave labor".
I don't know if you're a Democrat or not but you are certainly no conservative.
Great comments, thanks.