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Buying Safe Prescription Drugs from Canada

Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries, we pay the world’s highest prices. I have continued to lead the effort to allow Americans the opportunity to buy safe, effective prescription drugs at lower prices from countries like Canada (known as drug reimportation.) Allowing drug reimportation will bring increased competition to the pharmaceutical market, lowering the costs to all Americans.

We need a drastic revision of our health care system, but turning to a big government, one-size-fits-all program would be just as disastrous as it is in England and Canada. The first thing we need to understand is that we all pay for healthcare one way or another, either through increased costs of products manufactured by companies paying for their employee’s health care, or through Medicare and Medicaid taxes, or through increased hospital and medical costs incurred by providers who take care of the poor and uninsured.

We need to come to grips with the fact that medical care is a right, not a privilege. Once that decision is made, then we only need to decide what is the fairest way to provide it, and what is the most efficient way to provide it. Ideally, this would involve providing everyone with a certain amount of money, either through tax credits or reimbursement, to buy the type of insurance policy that they need, unfettered by state mandates on what must be covered.

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