[M203M4]

One problem is free health care. We have to pay for all of their medical care. And in Canada, free health care is the holiest of holy cows. It is honestly, and pathetically, one of the key defining "Canadian" things. Saying bad things about free health care is pretty much taken as blasphemy. Or more like burning an American flag to the Americans. Isn't it great that the Canadian national identity is intertwinned with a socialist utopian boondoggle?

So this is, in a way, cost reduction (if it pans out as advertised at least, which I wouldn't bet on). Bah. I'm not sticking around in the country for long.

[dhs12345]

Just hit me the other day (I may be completely wrong):

Why are Canadian drugs so cheap? Because the U.S. citizen is subsidizing Canadian drugs.

How? Canada, in mass, negotiate for cut rate prices on all drugs. Drugs that are developed and manufactured here in the U.S. and used by U.S. citizens.

If the U.S. were band together to do the same, then the drug companies would have to raise Canadian drug prices or accept much lower profits. Note: these profits are used to research new drugs.

The same would happen if more and more Americans buy their drugs from Canada. Bet you there is some contractual agreement with the drug companies to limit the number of sales back to the U.S. through Canada.

Americans are subsidizing the "wonderful" Canadian Health Care system.