[ThePythonicCow]

here is an excellent article that explains it: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa521.pdf.

Yes - good article.

af is correct.

af started this subthread with post Post #26, which stated:

one of the reasons why I support reimportation of drugs from canada is that it would put a heavy strain on their system. Price controls would collapse as canadians would be paying for cheaper drugs for us (and there are a lot more Americans than canadians). Combine that with a harper govt and you could see the end of socialized medicine there.

I still don't agree with that claim. I still suspect that lifting the reimportation ban would as likely drive prices, and drug company profits, and drug company R&D lower, as it would drive Canadian prices higher leading to threatening their socialized medicine.

I saw nothing in the article linked above that changes my mind on my disagreement with the specifics of af's original claim.

[dervish]

Since the article throughout is recommending lifting the reimportation ban thus forcing more costs onto the rest of the drug subsidized world in order to sustain R&D costs, I don’t agree with your analysis.

As to the collapse of the Canadian system, I don’t know enough about it to speak.