How can it be that in Canada,

[Uncle Joe]

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[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Lobbying of politicians, otherwise known as corruption, is not on an industrial scale. Legalized.

Neither is the need for massive coffers of campaign cash to get elected, so no path for drug companies to corrupt the democratic process.

Same goes for all things Americans can not have because of entrenched corruption, on all the levels that matter most.

Cant even have fair political representation.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. greed.

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Old adage was

money is the root of all evil..........You are right, it's not "money" is the root of all evil, it's GREED is the root to all evil.

Does anyone know, if you get written scripts from your Dr. and take them to Canada, will their pharmacies accept and fill them?
And secondly, can you get thru customs with them on your way back to the U.S.??????

[Irish_Dem]

3. The greedy wealthy bribe corrupt politicians who dupe racist, willfully ignorant voters.

Enough blame to go around.

[cilla4progress]

4. Love of money...

the root of all evil.

Across cultures and time this has been a known precept.

Except for US right now.

SMDH.

[NQAS]

5. On top of that...

Try to get an actual price

Cash at the pharmacy, no insurance. Pay through the nose.

Insurance. Well, that depends on the insurance, deductible, co-pay, tier of drug in insurance company formulary.

Good Rx. Probably really inexpensive.

We are a broken country.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[FakeNoose]

7. How can it be that doctors prescribe drugs via brand name, rather than generic name?

How can it be that insurance companies agree to cover the ridiculous exorbitant prices of the brand-name drugs? We have a lot questions, and we should be pointing fingers at the legislators who take bribes/donations from Big Pharma.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. many insurances require generic if it is available

This has happened to me more than once. The doc fills out with the brand name but the pharmacist fills with the generic.

[FakeNoose]

18. Yes I'm aware of this, but I thought it was optional by state law

I'd hope there would be a federal law for this, but the Big Pharma lobbyists would fight it tooth and nail.

[mjvpi]

8. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck.........

Well Bernie insists that he is a Mallard, a specific kind of duck, but he is a Democrat.

[gab13by13]

9. It even costs less manufactured

in India and China. We have been importing drugs from India and China for decades. I have to laugh at the GQP argument for high drug prices, that we can't trust them to be made in foreign countries. Hey, some people bought it.

[NullTuples]

10. I'd agree w/ comments about generic drugs, except...

The standards are already extremely low, stating they don't have to have the same amount of active ingredient.

That alone would make dosing difficult ("oh, it's CVS house brand so I need to take two&quot but what's even worse is there really is no regulation in terms of 3rd party testing of generic drugs. Most are simply made in a factory somewhere without regulations, bottled, shipped, eventually reach store shelves at some level of original potency, and then bought and utilized.

Generic drugs are a fine idea. The problem is we barely have any regulation left in America, and even less that's been granted actual enforcement powers.

[George II]

11. Anyone know what prescription medication he's speaking about in the first tweet?

[luvtheGWN]

13. Insulin, probably.

But that is just one. I've been seeing an ad on CNN -- a woman talking about universal drug coverage and having "government decide on the pricing etc." Oh, and "we don't want any of that socialized medicine here in the US, because patients have to wait in long lines for it" (that last part is parapharased but the meaning is the same).

No, in Canada drug prices are lower because the government negotiates with the drug companies to get the lowest price possible. Doctors and patients are partners in deciding which drugs are needed, and when. Same thing in the UK and every other first world country.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. US Pharma is socialism for the 1%. . . . nt

[George II]

19. The reason I asked is that last week he had a similar tweet, showing a vial of insulin...

....that he said cost $26* in Canada and more than $300 in the US. In fact, the same vial in the US is really only $29 as someone posted in that thread.

*Disclaimer: it may have been $21, I'm doing this from memory.

[Mysterian]

12. The USA is a plutocracy on the verge of becoming a full fascist state

The billionaires have successfully brainwashed half the population that "greed is good" and anything for the common welfare is evil "communism."

[EarthFirst]

15. ...well after all; it very well could be YOU!

“If you only put in the effort…”

[Marcuse]

20. Pharma ads boil down to, "Limited profits mean no mass production or R&D.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/572397-phrma-launches-7-figure-ad-campaign-against-democrats-drug-pricing-measures

[HAB911]

21. We are being forced to subsidize the rest of the world

[ck4829]

22. K&R