This is a ridiculous statement. Canadian drugs are much cheaper and are widely popular with people who must pay for their drugs themselves. This article is about stupid government programs, not the savings that can be realized by buying drugs from Canada. There is no good reason, except the greed of large contributors to political campaigns, that the US government doesn't just back off and allow citizens to buy there needed drugs from the cheapest and best source. And I don't want to here the old canard about the necessity for US citizens to pay more to subsidize necessary research for the rest of the world. Money needed for research should be paid equally by all consumers of the products not just by the suckers, US citizens, whose government has become a international socialist regime.
Canard? Name all the new drugs created by companies in countries that practice price controls. Whether you like it or not, the drug development pipeline depends heavily on profits generated in the U.S.
Institute price controls in the U.S. and you will kill innovation. Period. Ninety percent of all new drugs are discovered in the U.S. and there is a very good reason for that.
Money needed for research should be paid equally by all consumers of the products not just by the suckers
And I'm sure you have a failsafe plan for getting all those countries who force price controls on the pharmaceutical industry to stop dictating prices and allow the market to determine the cost. Care to share that plan with us?
.....US citizens, whose government has become a international socialist regime.
Our country doesn't practice price controls, which is why most of the world's R&D locates here, and you think this makes us an international socialist regime?
How exactly can you import prescription drugs from Canada? I tried with a prescription from my doctor in US and I was told that I needed a Canadian doctor to approve it. The fee the Canadian Doctor charged eliminated the savings...