A point that I wish more people understood.
But how come other countries pay so little for the drugs they get form the American drug companies? We're lucky there not screwing us as badly as they alraedy are
See how long you'd be able to run a drug company if pharmacists living in other parts of the world copied your drug formulas because they refused to pay the going drug rates.
That is why we used to have a concept called borders, and import tariffs. Good things, both. In the animal kingdom, things without borders and restrictions on imports are called slime-mold.