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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 it's a long way from being a reality. Even if the plan does pan out, it will likely be years before regulators review, approve, and scale up efforts to import drugs.
Still, 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," Amir Attaran of the University of Ottawa told STAT. Prof. Attaran went on to refer to the plan as "deplorable" and "atrociously unethical." "Our drugs are not for you, period."
[...] On Monday, August 12, Canada's Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor was set to meet with pharmacists, patients, and industry officials to discuss a response to the US plan, according to STAT. Petitpas Taylor has pledged to "ensure there are no adverse effects to the supply or cost of prescription drugs in Canada."
In order to protect Canadians, some advocates and policy experts suggested that Canada could begin controlling the export of pharmaceuticals, pass new laws simply banning exporting drugs meant for Canadians, or impose new tariffs.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 17 2019, @02:23AM (5 children)
You said America has NO shortages.
0% shortages.
I showed it was NOT 0%
Do any fractions you want.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @03:19AM (4 children)
I will translate colloquial speech into literal speech since you apparently need it:
There is no long lasting drug shortage crises worthy of nation wide news coverage in the United States because it is market based. Where there are shortages of specific stock (a specification of size of medication and quantity of medication), the FDA publishes alternatives so that people can resume treatment under different SKUs, types of medicines, or forms of treatment. Treatment mitigated in this fashion continues, so SKU shortages should not be conflated with failure to provide treatment. No one has made drug shortages in the US a political issue because it is very well managed when compared to the price controlled markets that socialists want us to move to.
People complain of verbosity if I always express this level of detail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @03:39AM
"No one has made" is not literal enough. "No one of any significance has made" is.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 17 2019, @02:06PM (2 children)
Does the US have drug shortages?
You said NO.
The FDA says yes.
You said 0%
The FDA says NOT 0%
NOW you say "There is no long lasting drug shortage"
Sooooo, not 0%?
Thank you for confirmation: there ARE shortages in the US. That's all I was talking about.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @09:13PM (1 child)
You might want to look up what colloquial speech is. It will probably save you time in the future.
We are not lawyers.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:33AM
Nor debaters.
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