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There are medications I need that cost an entire order of magnitude more in the US than in Canada. I'm not exaggerating. They're about $80 full price from Canad
by sofal 13y ago
There are medications I need that cost an entire order of magnitude more in the US than in Canada. I'm not exaggerating. They're about $80 full price from Canada and $800 here in the US.
- adventured 13y agoThat's the pharma industry's 'America pays' system. Canada receives subsidized costs on medications like much of the world, and America picks up the tab.
- Rantenki 13y agoNot sure what point you're trying to make here. The pricing on the medication was exceedingly high, about $200/dose, but as far as I can tell, that is the same price as in the USA: http://breastcancer.answers.com/medications/the-cost-of-neupogen-treating-the-side-effects-of-chemo http://breastcancer.answers.com/medications/the-cost-of-neup... The cost of the drugs was just picked up by the medical system instead of my pocketbook. I have seen this argument before; American health care is expensive because everybody else is a slacker who can't pay. It's obviously false. US pharma companies aren't subsidizing Canadian drugs, the Canadian government is. That Canadian drug prices are lower is more a function of the broken US medical system than anything else.
- vacri 13y agoAre you honestly saying that only the US does [significant] pharma research?