So what exactly is wrong with people going to Canada to buy cheap drugs and bring them back here? It is no different than crossing state lines to buy cheaper smokes or booze.
Well, what’s wrong is that the US has (or had) free market policies in place that encourage drug companies to spend billions on discovering new drugs and getting a return on the market.
Canada does NOTHING to contribute to drug innovation, but they parasitize upon US companies and set an artificially low price by government fiat.
If Canada is allowed to step in and wreck the drug market in the US, it will drive the few remaining innovators out of business.
I’m not a fan of the drug companies. But what we have is one of the few places in the world where innovation still takes place, and it’s market driven.
Hillary killed the flu vaccine business in this country by forcing cheap sales to kids. Now we have to hope other countries can make enough vaccine to get us through an emergency. The same thing could happen across the board.
How much medical innovation do you have even in Europe, which is filled with bright people?
No problem if what is in the bottle is what you expected to get. If not, don't complain. You "saved" money. Even after the cost of a round trip out of the country.
Smokes and booze are not subsidized by a socialist program.
If we buy drugs there we are supporting their socialist medicine and denying our free market companies their R&D revenue.