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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2019, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the caravans-gonna-caravan dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

A "caravan" of Americans living with Type 1 diabetes made its way across the U.S. border into Canada over the weekend in search of affordable medical care in a country where they can get the "exact same" life-saving drugs for a dramatically lower price.

"We're on a #CaravanToCanada because the USA charges astronomical prices for insulin that most people can't afford," tweeted caravan member Quinn Nystrom as she shared updates on the journey.

Nystrom was among a group of Minnesotans who piled into cars on Friday to make the 600-mile journey from the Twin Cities to Fort Frances, Ontario, where she said insulin, the hormone patients with Type 1 Diabetes rely on to regulate their blood glucose levels, can be bought for a tenth of what it costs in the U.S.

The caravan was organized as part of a campaign launched under the banner "#insulinforall" to call on the U.S. government to regulate the cost of life-saving drugs, including insulin, and make medication affordable for anyone who needs it.

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President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to address calls for greater drug pricing regulation. But, Democrats, including Cummings, have criticized the U.S. leader for being all talk and no action on that promise.

"Tweets are not enough," Cummings said in a statement, after Trump lamented high drug costs on Twitter. "We need real action and meaningful reform," Cummings said.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/caravan-americans-crossing-canadian-border-get-affordable-medical-care-1417582


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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Tuesday May 07 2019, @07:49PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 07 2019, @07:49PM (#840383) Journal

    They didn't get America to pay for it. Yet.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @10:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @10:02PM (#840469)

    They didn't get America to pay for it. Yet.

    You say that as a joke, but I find it interesting that no one appears to have publicly entertained the idea that the wall at our southern border would be just as good at keeping Americans trying to flee, say, a fascist regime from leaving as well as it would prevent asylum seekers the ability to enter the country and apply for asylum, as is their legal right under current US law.

    When it becomes obvious that people are voting with their feet (for example, by fleeing said fascist regime en masse due to economic or political chaos), it isn't all that improbably that America will build walls along its northern border, at least in the easiest to cross places. And why wouldn't we. Trump would no doubt find such a migration embarrassing, and so far he's following the Despot's Handbuch word for word. It's not like other despots haven't built walls *cough* his lover Kim Jong un *cough* etc.

    At which point Canada gets (at least parts of) its wall, and yes, America pays for it.