Canadian drugs aren't the cure

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Canadian drugs aren't the cure

The cheaper Canadian drugs are the same ones sold at higher prices in the United States.

Why are they cheaper up north? Because Canada has a policy of controlling drug prices through its national health insurance system.

The pharmaceutical lobby has so much power in the United States that cheaper drug prices are off the political radar screen.

The news media have generally accepted the nonsensical premise that the battle is about imports and that the issue is the safety of drugs from Canada. This is the drug industry line, and it's a complete red herring.

There is no documented case of an American getting sick because of tainted or adulterated drugs brought in from Canada. On the contrary, Canadian safety standards are at least as strict as our own.

The administration is actually pressing America's trading partners who have lower drug prices to raise those prices so that our high prices won't stick out like a sore thumb.

Economist Dean Baker has calculated that only about one dollar in five that US consumers spend on inflated drug prices go to finance drug research.

NOTE: Even though the title says that Canadian drugs aren't the cure, what the author means is that we should fix the problem with overpriced drugs in the U.S. rather than buying from Canada. Until we do that, however, the best solution at this time is to order your medicines and prescription drugs online and have them shipped from a Canadian pharmacy.