Canadian Relief - Crossing the border

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Canadian Relief - Crossing the border

The alternative of buying prescription drugs in Canada is increasingly advertised, by word of mouth, in news stories, and on the Internet.

If we subscribe, as free societies are supposed to do, to free trade, the consumer is entitled to search out sellers of the product who are willing to make it available cheaper than one can get it at home.

Peter Jennings of ABC cited a 64-year-old nun who is taking three medications to treat high cholesterol, gout, and thyroid. "I have no health insurance. I only make $15,000 a year and I can't spend it all on medicines. Last year, I spent $1,068 on three drugs, Lipitor, Allopurinol, and Synthroid. This year I'll be spending about $640. The savings are amazing."