>Canadians are in a kerfuffle over the Trump administration’s preliminary plan to allow Americans to import lower-cost prescription medications from Canada.
>The plan was announced July 31 and is part of the administration’s long-sought effort to drag down the US’s skyrocketing drug prices.
>But Canadians are infuriated by the idea and already brainstorming ways to toss it down the garburator, according to a report by health-news outlet STAT. Many fear that American importation would exacerbate current drug shortages in Canada.
>“You are coming as Americans to poach our drug supply, and I don’t have any polite words for that,” Aaron Ackerman of the University of Ottawa told STAT. Prof. Ackerman went on to refer to the plan as “atrociously unethical.”
Based. Fatties and genetic abominations shouldn't be allowed to live.
Kevin Russell
maybe we should try regulating the pharmaceutical industry so they can't do stupid shit like this
Levi Cruz
Why does Canada have a "drug shortage"? You just make more and then get $$$$ (Canadian $$$ that is).
Anyway Canadians can stay mad
Juan Sullivan
Bullshit, new cars are much more expensive because of all the stupid environmental/safety regulations they have to meet and the electronic crap they make standard
Hard to find exact sources, but a new car in the year 1970 was around $3500, which is about $23000 today. You can buy a 2020 Toyota Corolla for $19000 MSRP
Matthew Bennett
>rather buy from Canada than stand up to big pharma wew
David Wright
is it true boomers bought muscle cars out of HS and traded them ever couple of years?
Nathaniel Bailey
Considering back then you could get a decent middle class job right out of HS without any formal training? I wouldn't doubt it if the dealerships gave decent loans/financing to 19 years old
Nolan Ward
fucking based. Scheer won't save canucks from big bad MAGA BOSS TRUMP
Samuel Cook
Sometimes, you didn't need to graduate high school. My dad dropped out, got arrested and still landed a comfy union job.
Logan Johnson
our pharmaceutical companies make drugs based off expected demand if a state like florida with 2/3 of canada's population starts buying insulin here, it would take at least a year to increase production to meet that my dad's friend wasn't rich and drove a new 68 mustang when he was 17 he got high and crashed it into a post rather than run over a cat stupid boomer
Thomas Torres
What's atrociously unethical about allowing people access to medicine? Is he just upset that Trump said it?
Nathan Sanders
Wouldn't that be good for the leaf economy? We are buying their shit
Owen Morales
and with their career paths they could still buy 60000 dollar muscle cars today, its just not fair
Nathan Taylor
yes. people here are just stupid
Mason Moore
Not just disagree with it, but act like its a crime against humanity to even suggest.
Nathaniel Wood
it would be a sudden increase in demand like everyone in the country becoming diabetic and needing insulin
Oliver Walker
>"Canadians are furious" >cites one canadian Why do articles always do this
Owen Moore
Well since we know it's coming we can prepare for it. You'd have to be extremely dumb to miss this opportunity to expand the market. Americans already come here to buy insulin and other drugs so we may as well take advantage of that.
Alexander Torres
>why aren't Canadians more grateful about us depleting their drug stockpiles? Why aren't you making your drugs more affordable?
Levi Thompson
because "one canadian is furious" doesnt get you nearly as many clicks
Dylan Martin
>no trust me, Canadians are definitely cool with us taking advantage of their universal healthcare instead of developing their own
Mutts are mentally ill.
Blake Reed
>US drug price shit high >US buys from Canada to lower price >US pharma wont stop selling high >Canacucks are dragged into the bullshit price >Both die from dog insulin
I must thank the jews for paving the road to Aztlán.
Liam Myers
Holy fuck Big pharma is literally run by murderers. Why don't Americans publicly execute them?
Parker Moore
because regulation is evil and if we try to control drug prices there will be no incentive to produce drugs and everyone's gonna die
Anthony King
it's more that their government is influenced by pharmaceutical companies who gouge americans to develop drugs for the whole world only generic drugs are made here
Luis Miller
Maybe we could arrange something *wink wink*
Sebastian Sanders
Thank you for your service
Justin Brown
umb sweaty, I was told canadians are all for helping the less fortunate and anti-nationalist to a fault fake news
Dylan Powell
>Big pharma is literally run by murderers. they're also responsible for the on going opioid crisis >Why don't Americans publicly execute them? we're a nation of boot lickers plagued with infighting
Colton Brown
Yes. Classic American logic. Free market solves everything, even though market economics break down when (1) a product is a necessity, and/or (2) equivalent alternatives aren’t available.
That’s why Pharma companies buy out or block their competitors, crank up the prices, and are so profitable that they are the second largest component of the American GDP (proportionally ahead of all other nations).
You can't have universal healthcare with open borders, which the US has.
Hudson Miller
but Canada's borders are actually pretty much open and they have universal healthcare
Nicholas Young
>but Canada's borders are actually pretty much open
LOL since when?
Alexander Price
Universal healthcare doesn’t mean everyone has access. You need to be a resident of Canada (more specifically, of one of the provinces, since the healthcare program falls under provincial jurisdiction).
If you (as an American) come to Canada, you will need to pay to use our hospitals.
Aaron Reyes
it's piss easy to enter Canada, much easier than entering the U.S. from the north and especially the south.
Jace Hughes
>Nolanfag Kek I know everything about you mutt. Enjoy waiting 10 months for a doctor to see you and then paying a million dollars when he prescribes you cough syrup.
Tyler Carter
We can increase drug production and profit in the long run. This is a good thing.
Dominic Ross
I am a proponent of universal healthcare but the American medical community is full of opportunistic, overpaid pill-pushers and even though in typical universal healthcare systems only citizens can benefit from the system, I have no doubt that there would be major outcry if illegal immigrants were denied healthcare and to give them care would easily break the system's back.
But there aren't millions of illegal Americans living in Canada.
Ethan Thompson
Based. Undercut them hard.
Nolan Reed
what the fuck? he actually thinks we're like canada and europe, ahahahaha. nobody has to wait to see doctors here, this isn't europe you complete fucking jungle monkey.
and i know all about thai boys. you love to dress up like little girls and get fucked in the ass by european men. we shoulda nuke you instead
>exacerbate current drug shortages in Canada. But I thought the Canadian system was amazing and perfect. They seem to gloat about it to Americans often
Jordan Cruz
>anime poster too Kek you're probably posting while waiting a year to see a doctor who will charge you a king's ransom for a bandaid. No wonder so many mutts come here to use our superior healthcare system. You're probably too poor for that though.
Canadian's are pissed about this? If anything we have more of a right to be mad. FUCKING LEAFS TAKING OUR JOBS.
Make drugs is an AMERICAN job and you have no right to take that from us. I gotta be honest here, with this bullshit you're pulling now Canada you're starting to look worse than Mexico. We won't tolerate this nonsense for much longer.
Blake Wright
Big pharma made their money on poor and unfortunate people. By punic standards of American success they're basically american heroes and deserve to be buried among ones.
ins't your military like 90% mexicans looking to gain citizenship? yeah not afraid of you tyreekus jose hernadez washington the third
Carson Ross
If regulation is evil why noone else other than US and 3rd world shitholes with no regulation has this problem?
And it's not like overregulated european countries don't have pharmaceuticals company, GSK is british for example, they sell in Europe on the cheap while the cost of their products in the US are like 1500% of the European price because Americans elect corporate lackeys to avoid being called a "communist" if it were to save their lives.
Noah Morales
Problem is, you have to spread your ass for Big Pharma or they'll put out a hit on you.
Gabriel Brooks
The illegal immigration “crisis” the the US is way overblown. Both Canada and the US have a similar amount of illegal immigrants as a proportion of the population.
US is about 300k/yr (apprehensions), to a total country population of 320M. Canada is about 29k/yr, to a total country population of 36M.
Canada accepts proportionally more immigrants, which legally have access to healthcare.
Cooper Parker
There is no way to sustain a system like universal healthcare in the long run without clamping down on this in some way.
Eli Fisher
You fuckers will shoot anyone except people who actually need shooting. The 2nd amendment exists to prevent tyranny from rising, make use of it. The elite should live in fear.
Daniel King
You do realise that these prices are a consequence of prohibiting everyone but big pharma to produce and distribute insulin through regulation right? The same applies to your hospitals, when they can directly veto the construction of a new hospital they can artificially raise prices as much as they want because there's no other hospital to go to? No it doesn't you chimp, it breaks down when supply is artificially blocked, do tell about the ridiculously high prices of water and electricity. European medicine is less regulated than American, but since they have actual competition when they system isn't completely public, they are forced to sell at reasonable prices. Did you actually type this with your own two hands? Please read this over and consider why this is so stupid
Jayden James
300k additional people a year is no big deal dude trust me
Ian James
they get sent to jail if the do
Cameron Russell
Bernie is also for this and people are still against it, stand up to your own drug companies cuck
Anthony Ortiz
Only libertarians. Even a lot of right wingers are moving very left economically these days. Only problem people have with Bernie is that he labels himself a socialist which is synonymous with communism here and you can meme about that all you want but America has historically been staunchly anti-communist no matter how trendy it is with young people.
For the record, I would be happy with Bernie winning next election and I wanted him to win the last one.
