Donald Trump wants to give Americans lower drug prices -- by buying drugs from Canada. David Olive writes:
Trump is poised to authorize pilot projects by U.S. states, pharmacists and wholesalers to import from Canada medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This, despite the fact that, "Canada pays some of the world’s highest prices for generic drugs. We are the only country with universal medicare that doesn’t also provide universal drug coverage. And the $34 billion that Canadians spent on prescription drugs last year is the third-highest in the world on a per capita basis."
Still, compared to American drug prices, Canadian drugs are a bargain. Trump's move was immediately condemned by a number of organizations:
It took about a minute for the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), the Canadian Pharmacists Association and 14 other medical groups to formally protest the latest peculiar Trump notion to Ottawa.
“Pharmacies in Canada are resourced to serve the Canadian public,” the CMA said. Canada is “not equipped to support the needs of a country 10 times its size” without running short of medications for ourselves.
If there has ever been an action that displays Trump's essential deviousness, this is it. Trump is all about personal profit -- built on fraud. He refuses to do what other countries have done to lower drug prices. But, if he can steal what he wants -- or needs -- from some place else, he'll do it in a heartbeat.
Canada only has one option when dealing with such a thief. Lock the doors -- on medicine chests or on anything else in the neighbourhood.
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4 comments:
The government should be blocking this immediately. It should be a huge election issue, but they are just ignoring it. They will drain us of all drugs. They are economic "refugees" who cannot deal with the Monster in Charge. Let then clean up their own mess. Build a wall and let them pay for it.
This is theft -- pure and simple, Mac.
This would be a fine issue for the Federal NDP to get on top of. Hey Jagmeet tell Trump to get bent. Tell him to clean up his own backyard before he comes sniffing around our socialist failure of a country. Seriously America this is your guy ? What a joke you have become.
I agree, Jason. The man and the country have become a laughing stock. But the laughter is not happy laughter.
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