In Russia...
Posted on 07/15/2021 1:56:29 AM PDT by blueplum
The Republican Party has long been divided on allowing the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, a policy proposal President Joe Biden revived in a sweeping executive order after the Trump administration's similar efforts fizzled in 2020....
...The Trump administration’s vision for legal prescription drug importation from Canada did not materialize, despite enthusiasm from Trump and his ally, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has pushed for prescription drug importation as a fix to high drug costs for years.
In 2019, the Trump administration first proposed to import inexpensive drugs from Canada, where prescription drugs are cheaper because the government regulates the prices. Trump's proposal, the Safe Importation Action Plan, called for federal rule-making to authorize state, wholesaler, or pharmacy plans to set up drug importation programs that abide by FDA safety standards and regulations to be sold in the United States....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
For lawmakers: I save over $5K a year on copd medications by ordering from BC - 3 months of albuterol and atrovent inhalers - 6 inhalers total - are under $175, shipping included and I have 4 years of receipts to prove it. This is lower than a medicare rx plan plus deductable. In the US, no insurance, atrovent is $400=$500 per inhaler per month. No insurance plan should have to shell that out either, even if they get a discount, since it shows up in increased premiums for everyone. Noone should have to pay $400 a month to breathe, or $250 a month to control blood sugar, when Trump got the price of insulin down to $40 a month. Please finish an unfinished plank of Trump's legacy and pass the blueprint of his Safe Importation Action Plan before Biden steals the thunder. Thank you.
Make the damn drugs here in the USA and price them fairly. No pharm company should be reeling in 25% profits.
Doesn’t Canada steal the patents?
Yes Comrade... WE should determine what the profits are for these Capitalist Pig Companies...
I have had several diabetic cats over the years. Vet prescribed LANTUS. Imagine my shock when I went to get that filled! I would order online from Canada and they imported it from Turkey at about 1/3 the price.
My one cat needs an inhaler for asthma, my vet order it for me from Canada.
Eh? sometimes I think I am the only healthy thing in the house.
I know India does, by law.
I used to side with the American makers, since we do virtually all the research and development here, but after the whole criminally fascist COVID vaccine boondoggle, I say eff-'em.
See if you can get a generic over-the-counter at Walmart. I have bought NovolinR for $25 a vial. That's in Ohio. May be different in other states.
If Walmart can sell at that price, it's obvious that other sources such as CVS are just ripping us off.
Lantus is a time-release insulin, like Basaglar. NovolinR is much quicker acting, so doses have to be much smaller and more frequent. I've never asked Walmart top see if they have a time-release formula or not.
Unfortunately, we’re subsidizing the medical/pharma R&D for the whole world.
for cats the long acting insulins and diet change can often bring on permanent remission of diabetes in about 12 weeks.
The US government mandates BILLION DOLLAR FDA development costs and drug companies need more lawyers than biochemists in order to sell any pharmaceutical. Then folks complain that prices are too high?!
Medicare mandated that doctors get graded on how well they relieve patient complaints then the pharmaceutical companies get sued into oblivion because of the opioid crisis.
Medications are obtained by going to your doctor who contacts your pharmacy and gets approval from your insurance, all of which are regulated by the government. How much does that add to the price? It may take decades for drugs to be allowed to be sold “over the counter” (if ever) like they do in some countries.
There are many pieces to the drug pricing puzzle.
Maybe the cats are allergic to you?)
In the capitalist free market system, buyers often negotiate prices with sellers in very great detail down to costs for supplies and profit margins, espcially on complex transactions, including the rights audits to ensure that the agreement is followed. The US government, when it is a customer has no less right to establish such deals. We do it all the time with defense contractors. Don't like it, don't bid, or take your sales elsewhere. That is the free market - willing sellers and willing buyers.
PS What is communist - well fascist capitalist cronyism to be exact is the present system where the side that controls the prices for almost everyone - the US government - gets paid off to allow profiteering on sales to the government - and everyone else by extension.
Capitalism + globalism = suicide
That too, but for anyone to describe the present system of pricing of medical services in the United States as “free market capitalism at work” is delusional. The only free market is the buying and selling of politicians to the highest bidder and the recurring payment scheme in place so they stay bought.
In Russia...
Yep.
Seems like this would have been already covered in the new NAFTA Trump pushed. Same with more enforcement standards and stopping illegals coming from Mexico.
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