[hedgetrimmer]

We can't buy drugs from outside of the country because they may not be safe

This may have more to do with trade agreements and public private partnerships with pharmaceutical companies.

We pay the highest price of any country for our drugs. Its called piggybacking, and the pharmaceutical companies, because they are forced by the UN and trade treaties, to sell their drugs at much lower costs to other countries, piggyback those costs onto the price they charge here. They make their money, and citizen consumers end up subsidizing drugs sold everywhere else in the world, unknowingly. It is a form of foreign aid, so to speak.

If we buy the drugs from other countries, we are undermining the subsidy plan, and the people who are forcing the stealth drug subsidy through treaties and trade agreements will get upset with us.

Its like oil for food in a way, the drug prices are a scam of global proproportions-- and I am not saying we shouldn't pay when a company has invested a lot in R&D. I am saying we are getting a backhanded ripoff of monunmental proportions foisted on us by the global trade crowd, of which there are many in our federal government.

[stands2reason]

It's not treaties and trade agreements that control the pharmaceutical companies. It's more like extortion. The countries say, "Sell to us at the price we want, or we'll just steal your formulas and make our own."