Trump administration is drafting plan to allow US consumers to import drugs from Canada

CNBC ^ | 7/30/2019 | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

[Poison Pill]

Trump is working on a proposal that would allow the U.S. to import drugs from Canada, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says.

“Working on a plan on how we can import drugs safely and effectively from Canada so the American people get the benefit of the deals that pharma themselves are striking with other countries,” he says.

[Wallace T.]

The pharmaceutical firms provide major financial subsidies to the liberal media via advertising. Watch most network or cable shows and you will see numerous ads promoting their medicines. Fake news networks like CNN are subsidized by these ads.

Then we have the political involvement of Big Pharma, not as blatant perhaps as Big Tech, but still there. Big Tech is trying to override the First Amendment through censorship of non-liberal and non-leftist views. Big Pharma and their allies in the medical community use their influence in Congress, the Federal bureaucracy, and the state legislatures to shut down or at least limit alternative medicine.

By threatening the pharmaceutical cartel, Trump is attacking one of the pillars of the political order supported by Establishment Republicans and most Democrats, except perhaps Williamson and Hirono. Good for him!

[Spktyr]

The fun part is that it will help Canada’s economy while helping US citizens. The other thing is that Canada is basically the only other nation that has similar pharmacological safety regulations as the US - so unlike ordering meds from Europe or Asia, you won’t get bogus meds.

It will also force US drug prices down quite a lot. Probably helping out considerably more than the Democrat health plans ever could in their best fever dreams.

On top of that, a lot of those meds were made in the US, then shipped to Canada in the first place.

[SeekAndFind]

Why are drug prices in Canada much cheaper than they are in the USA?

[Revolutionary]

What this will do is raise the price of drugs in Canada and lower them in the U.S. Other countries “negotiate” a significantly lower price for the drugs. The pills themselves don’t cost much to make; it is the R&D and FDA costs that they have to recuperate plus profit. The U.S. has foot the bill for most of these costs over the years. President Trump is working towards other countries paying their fair share for the drug’s R&D, etc.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

They are cheaper there BECAUSE we do all of the work in research and development WE have to pay for all of that research and development!!!

[Revolutionary]

In the case of Canada and several other countries we make the drug here, ship it to Canada, and then bring it back here to use. Have to watch out for countries like India, etc. that make crap for pills.

[DesertRhino]

““Working on a plan on how we can import drugs safely and effectively from Canada so the American people get the benefit of the deals that pharma themselves are striking with other countries,” “

Just get out of the damned way. There doesn’t need to be a “deal”.

[canuck_conservative]

Why are drug prices in Canada much cheaper than they are in the USA?

No gouging?

[sergeantdave]

“A lot of info came out recently that a lot of generic medications sold here in the US are made in China and many contain cancer causing chemicals and FDA is warning about them.”

And you cite the leftist liars at NBC to back up your statement? That’s funny as hell. Are you a comedy writer?

[grey_whiskers]

If Trump wants to utterly eviscerate the Dem party, he should make a campaign promise to include medicinal marijuana on the list.

The number of Dems suddenly going cold turkey would freeze the Great Lakes on the spot.

[dp0622]

yep

[dp0622]

GOOD.

It’s crazy how it’s been.

[Innovative]

It was in multiple news sources at the time, but this is where I could find it now.

[Neidermeyer]

If the Canadians are importing some of the drugs from China, there may be some truth in that. But, generally, they will be safe.
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Most of the precursors/ingredients are China sourced no matter where in the world the drugs are manufactured.

[PA Engineer]

After the forced imposition of Obamacare, my insurance company (5th largest in us) was promoting their prescription benefits. How wonderful and affordable they were if we purchased 90 days from two designated sources. Funny. The deductible was quite high for prescription coverage.

I began shopping around and found full cost generics (not permitted in the US even with expired patents) were less than my deductibles. Same companies manufacturing 3 of the 4 generics as name brands in the US.

Wake up people. It is no longer about recouping development costs, but cost shifting and price gouging guarantees to insurance companies under the Unaffordable Care Act.

Look into it for yourselves. We are saving over $2k a year by paying full price with delivery to the door. Same drugs and same manufacturers as here. Further, a couple of prescription medications sold here were being produced in Canada.

[rb22982]

No, there wouldn’t. The other governments basically only Allow monopoly patents if they adhere to certain rules such as reasonable markups.

[rb22982]

No it’s not. Amazing free marketers lose all interest in the free market with Heathcare. The free market only works with many buyers and many sellers. Most drugs today are designed to TREAT issues not cure them because of our patent laws. And it still makes no sense to not allow importation of one industry (drugs) when we do for EVERYTHING else

[rb22982]

It will have no effect on drug prices in canada

[rb22982]

Yup

[Bernard]

I can’t tell. My Chrome browser won’t let me click on Canadian pharmacy web-sites; it will provide access to an FDA webs-site that basically won’t show Canadian prices. Talk about government censorship implemented by private enterprise.