Drug Prices Canada-US

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>Is Canada offering American-produced drugs at lower prices?

Apparently so. I have personal experience of this when my husband needed Cipro

while we were in the US. It cost $10 a pill. Back home in Canada it was only

$5 a pill.

>What it was supposed to mean is that if the for-profit system the United

States has is responsible for the creation of the drugs, and other countries

essentially de-engineer the drugs and produce generic copies, the only reason

they

can do so is because the US had a system conducive to producing the drugs in

the first place. It's easier to bootleg a drug than to develop one.

That's not true because the drug companies hold International patents on their

drugs!

Generic drugs are available, and cost less than the " name-brands " but doctors

usually specify the name-brands (I wonder why? ha ha) and sometimes specify that

they are better.

BTW just because Canada is a socialist country doesn't mean there is no

free enterprise.

>In a Libertarian view, neither the American system nor the Canadian system

are very ideal. While the drug supplier in Canada is not forced to sell the

products at a certain price, there is only one buyer due to socialized health

insurance.

This is not true. Drugs are not covered, we have to pay for them!

> -- Canada's cheaper, but we make all the drugs

FYI there are plenty of drug companies in Canada, Canadian, International AND

American.

>So, like I said, Canada is " mooching " off of us. If we didn't have a

for-profit system that was conducive to making all the drugs, where would Canada

get their cheap deals from?

Canada is NOT mooching off YOU. It's a case of supply and demand and the DRUG

COMPANIES negotiate a deal. You're very welcome to visit Canada and buy

American drugs there, or you can buy them online.

>You also don't have choice, and you also don't have a lot of the technology.

You can change doctors if you want to. It's not the dark ages and there is

plenty of good technology.

>Worse, you have endless waiting lists. I've talked to people who live in

Canada; it's not as pretty as you make it out to be.

People will always complain. Yes, you sometimes have to wait, but if it's an

emergency you can always get seen at a hospital. At least you don't have to

hock your house to pay for your heart attack!

>They have power to the extent we can do all their dirty work for them, like

make their drugs

That's dirty work? It's up to the drug companies whether they want to sell them

to other countries or not

>devise their medical technology

Canda has its own too you know!

>and fight their battles against totalitarian monoliths that want to conquer the

world.

Good grief, whose battles? I'm not even going to go there but I think

you have overstepped the line with THAT comment.

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