Canada blocks Trump's prescription drug import plan

[CitizenVectron]

Canada blocks bulk exports of some prescription drugs in response to Trump import plan | Reuters

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Canada on Saturday blocked bulk exports of prescription drugs if they would create a shortage at home, in response to outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to allow...

 

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The Canadian measure went into effect on Friday, just days before a U.S. “Importation Prescription Drugs” rule that would eventually allow licensed U.S. pharmacists or wholesalers to import in bulk certain prescription drugs intended for the Canadian market.

 

Neither the White House nor the Department of Health and Human Services had an immediate response to a request for comment.

 

Trump touted the plan in his first debate with President-elect Joe Biden, who has also said during his campaign that he would set up a similar import plan to try to reduce prescription drug costs for Americans.

 

Canada has the balls to negotiate for these drugs on a national scale, and the US wants to then just take the drugs rather than force the drug companies to lower prices. Both Trump and Biden supported this hack job of a drug price fix.

[CayceG]

Everything is just so disappointing. 

[CitizenVectron]

3 minutes ago, CayceG said:

Everything is just so disappointing. 

 

It does suck for Americans, but the solution is to have American governments enact national drug negotiations, not allow others to do it and then try and take the drugs (thus depriving them from the other country's people).

[CayceG]

7 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

It does suck for Americans, but the solution is to have American governments enact national drug negotiations, not allow others to do it and then try and take the drugs (thus depriving them from the other country's people).

 

Yeah, that's the disappointing part. That we don't tackle this national problem on a national level. And Biden is just A-OK with it. 

[Fizzzzle]

Fuck all these fucks.

[SuperSpreader]

lol

[Jason]

I hope this doesn't screw my brother, I know my mom gets some of his meds via Canada.

 

It really was a fucking hack job. Americans importing Canadian meds was very obviously never something that could scale.

[Keyser_Soze]

People just like Canadian medicine because it sounds clean but you can get perfectly good cheap medicine and medical care south of the border as well!

[SuperSpreader]

Mexicans been doing this since the 80s. Now white america wants in and ruins shit again. 

[Joe]

8 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

People just like Canadian medicine because it sounds clean but you can get perfectly good cheap medicine and medical care south of the border as well!

I’ve gotten prescription drugs before from Mexico. In the box from the manufacturer, too, for a tenth of the price.

[Jason]

8 minutes ago, Joe said:

I’ve gotten prescription drugs before from Mexico. In the box from the manufacturer, too, for a tenth of the price.

 

There's a whole cottage industry of dentists in Tijuana catering to people driving over from SoCal.

[SuperSpreader]

41 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

There's a whole cottage industry of dentists in Tijuana catering to people driving over from SoCal.

That's every border town. Matamoros, Reynosa, Cd Juarez off of TX are the same way. 

[Xbob42]

Wait I get that it's a shitty solution but "take" the drugs? I don't think that's the right word for "importing." It makes it sound like they're coming in with guns to steal the drugs or something.

[TwinIon]

If the plan is to import huge amounts of drugs because someone else negotiated a good deal on them, surely the solution would be to negotiate a similar deal and not have to deal with importing anything. 

 

 

 

Obviously the roadblock to that is dealing with big pharma lobbying efforts, but I don't get this stupid plan was able to go this far when the real solution would presumably put them in a similar, and likely better position.