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Florida Is First State Allowed to Import Prescription Drugs From Canada (www.wsj.com)

submitted 10 months ago by GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Some personal editorializing: This is a pretty remarkable first because of how captive we Americans are to pharma prices. Famously, when Medicare Part D was brought into existence by law it restricted the federal government from negotiating Part D drug prices. To me, shopping for drugs in Canada is tackling the symptom and ignores the cause. I wonder if this gets more traction with more states how it might affect drug prices in Canada, too.

The real solution to all this, of course, would be nationalize the healthcare industry in all aspects and to create a single payer healthcare system.

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

If we sell our drugs to America on the cheap, we’ll probably end up buying them back at five times the price. Isn’t that how it works with our electricity and/or water?