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Socialism isn’t going to solve the problem, nor snide remarks about “They should have saved up more!” However, the drugs my mom needed cost 1/10th of the price charged in America. $1,200 in the U.S. Every month. $120 if you ordered them from Canada. Which is illegal.
He’s been in the senate for 9 years and a politician for 35, why hasn’t he introduced legislation to solve this before now?
Most people in this country don't care whether a med costs $400 or $1200. They only care whether their co-pay is $5, $25, or $50. Therefore, the pharma company can charge whatever the insurance company (or Medicare, Tricare, or Medicaid) will bear. 1/3
First, I admire you for speaking publically about these issues. I do feel like we can do better than Canada. We should be able to get safe affordable medications here in the US. I fight for it every day as that's my vision of the country that I want to leave behind for my child.
3/3 But the thought of having the government mass-buy meds (Bernie's idea) is NUTS. The same government that pays $400 for a hammer or $10,000 for a toilet seat cover is going to negotiate good pricing on meds? Are you KIDDING me?
2/3 Sure, I agree with letting people buy their drugs from Canada, the UK, or (if they're stupid enough) from the PRC. If they are paying out of their own pocket, who cares where they get their meds.
I'm extremely sympathetic to your story about your mom, but I do want to clarify: I believe it *IS* legal for Americans to import up to a 90 day supply of Rx drugs at a time. This has been a thing for many years now. My mom does it. Perhaps your mom's case is different somehow?
Simulation in action
This is a huge problem with the drug industry. It should not be illegal to order from Canada. Vastly reduce patent duration to facilitate production of generics. And while TBH I do not support M4A for physical health, I do for mental health, though I'm likely unique in that view.
This is a huge problem with the drug industry. It should not be illegal to order from Canada. Vastly reduce patent duration to facilitate production of generics. And while TBH I do not support M4A for physical health, I do for mental health, though I'm likely unique in that view
Thank YOU. I agree with everything you say, and I have lived over 45 years with someone who suffers from bipolar illness. Compounded recently by illnesses associated with age. Those who haven’t lived it seem unable to understand. I don’t see that changing.
@RonDeSantisFL recently signed a bill to allow foreign drug importation.
Drug development is extremely expensive, b/c the drug cos develop many drugs that fail testing, so that cost must be rolled into the few drugs that make it to market. If first world countries paid the same as US, their prices would go up a little, but US prices would drop a lot.
This must happen. It is crazy for the US to be subsidizing first world countries, and for the US to be bearing the drug development cost alone. When u see comparisons of healthcare in US vs. EU or CA, remember we are subsidizing their drugs, bringing their total h/c costs down.
@realDonaldTrump this is something you might wanna steal
Dude you are the worst person on the entire internet. Go to hell. No one gives a shit about your struggles when you’re a bigoted racist piece of fucking shit for your whole life. Shut the fuck up
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