Pharmaceuticals are simply not a supply constrained market here or in Canada. Economic models based on free market balancing of limited supply and price sensitive demand simply don't apply in markets that are none of the these.
“Suppose Canadian drug prices are two-thirds the level of U.S. prices. Drug companies would face two choices: They could ship the U.S. supply of their drugs to Canada, reducing their revenue by one-third. Or they could tell Canadian authorities they will no longer sell at discounted Canadian prices, reducing their revenues by less than a tenth—reflecting the smaller market size and lower Canadian prices.
Their choice is obvious, and Canada would have to lift its prices nearly to U.S. levels if it wanted to keep the supply of drugs it needs flowing. Administrators of the perpetually crisis-ridden Canadian health-care system would be very unhappy.”
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.15570,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
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That’s what I want to do; make Canadians unhappy so that they drop their price controls.