I like that Rick Larsen supports importing cheaper drugs from Canada. Not that I've given it tons of thought or anything. Just that the argument that Canadian drugs might not be as safe as American ones is so asinine that it makes the rest of the argument about Canadian drug importation suspect, in my mind.
My dad is a Canadian pharmacist. The drug companies are currently economically blackmailing Canadian pharmacists against exporting meds to the US. They have threatened to cut off sales to individual pharmacies whose wholesale demand for any particular drug suddenly(suspiciously) increases. Which would, in practice, destroy that pharmacy's business outright. If you can't provide a whole list of drugs to your regular customers because the makers of those drugs refuse to sell to you, you lose those customers. And you don't get new ones.
I guess I'm just pissed off at drug companies trying to dictate government policy and personal purchasing power.
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