Wednesday, September 15, 2004
This is going to be a very boring post, so you should probably not read it.
If you follow such things, there has been a lot of talk recently about making prescription drugs cheaper by importing them from Canada. No one seems to care that this is ludicrous. Setting aside the [overblown] safety concerns and [underblown] economic concerns, can anyone see what this would mean if many or most people had their drugs shipped from Canada? It would mean that the entire U.S. pharmaceutical industry would no longer be under the jurisdiction of Congress and the FDA, but would instead be effectively regulated in Ottawa.
So why make all of the drugs make a round trip to and from Canada to get these lower prices? Why not just have Congress mandate that they will no longer be supervising the drug industry and they now have to follow all Canadian rules? This would save a lot of time and achieve the same result. And why not go a step further, and instead of using Canada, get our drugs from Mexico or India, where they are even cheaper? That would be great! We could get Sonia Gandhi to regulate our drug industry.
And I noticed that a lot of things are cheaper in Canada. We could just export and then reimport all of our consumer goods from Canada, and we would all save so much money! We could be as happy as the Canadians, who are obviously amazingly happy, since none of them ever want to move to the U.S.
I wonder if Bill Clinton is still in favor of being more like Canada, seeing as how he would now be dead if he were a typical Canadian citizen (where the average wait time for what he had done is 5.5 weeks).
If you follow such things, there has been a lot of talk recently about making prescription drugs cheaper by importing them from Canada. No one seems to care that this is ludicrous. Setting aside the [overblown] safety concerns and [underblown] economic concerns, can anyone see what this would mean if many or most people had their drugs shipped from Canada? It would mean that the entire U.S. pharmaceutical industry would no longer be under the jurisdiction of Congress and the FDA, but would instead be effectively regulated in Ottawa.
So why make all of the drugs make a round trip to and from Canada to get these lower prices? Why not just have Congress mandate that they will no longer be supervising the drug industry and they now have to follow all Canadian rules? This would save a lot of time and achieve the same result. And why not go a step further, and instead of using Canada, get our drugs from Mexico or India, where they are even cheaper? That would be great! We could get Sonia Gandhi to regulate our drug industry.
And I noticed that a lot of things are cheaper in Canada. We could just export and then reimport all of our consumer goods from Canada, and we would all save so much money! We could be as happy as the Canadians, who are obviously amazingly happy, since none of them ever want to move to the U.S.
I wonder if Bill Clinton is still in favor of being more like Canada, seeing as how he would now be dead if he were a typical Canadian citizen (where the average wait time for what he had done is 5.5 weeks).
