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[Prokopton]

"It is an unfortunate reality that to protect their intellectual property pharmaceutical companies have to subsidize the socialist healthcare systems of other countries."

This is the greatest fallacy, of many, in your argument. Pharmaceutical companies are not subsidizing the socialist health care systems of other countries, WE ARE!
So you think its reasonable that because Canada will not pay more for their drugs we must? Why shouldn't the U.S. tell the pharmaceutical companies that we are the ones who will not pay more for their drugs. Why not tell them that if they want more money they can ask the Canadians to pay more. After all, we buy much more prescription drugs than Canada so, if market forces were allowed to work, we would have more clout.
No, the apologists for the gouging of Americans, for the sake of corporate profits, can't sell their illogic to other countries and they can't sell it to the American people.
Get the government out of the way and encourage competition among companies as suppliers and among countries as customers. The companies will always charge enough to make a profit and the price of their products will be equalized among their customers but with an edge to those who consume more. That's the free market. What the present system does, and what you propose, is for our government to act as a socialist government so as to support other socialist governments.
That Republicans support such a system is pathetic.

BTW, your predictions of what would happen to our health care if market forces were allowed to work without government interference is so silly it's laughable.
Get out of the bed of the liberals and socialist and focus on free enterprise working for the good of U.S. citizens, not our government controlling markets for the good of foreigners.