Sunday, October 10, 2004

Drugs from Canada, eh

About as absurd as the "undecided" voter is the notion that people in the US should be buying drugs from Canada.

Bush says he (like Clinton) will not allow FDA approval of drugs from Canada since nobody knows if it's safe.

That's such a cop out! We live in the UNITED (frickin') STATES OF AMERICA. First of all, I doubt the Canadian government is slacking on their drug regulations and allowing unsafe drugs to go to its citizens.

But even if they are, we're the USA! If the Canadian government has enough leverage to lower prices of drugs, I think the US government can do it too. (No offense, but is there anything the Canadian government can do that we can't?) Force the pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices to those of Canada!

Of course, no politician will ever grow the balls to do that. The pill for that is only available in Canada.

1 comment:

PJ said...

Actually, there is at least one thing the Canadian government can do that the United (frickin') States of America can't: refuse large campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies.