Pharmacuticals/free market/rant

[fabsroman]

Okay, I brought this subject up at dinner and there are a couple of reasons that prescriptions from Canada and elsewhere are cheaper.

1. Any medicine sold in the US must be manufactured according to FDA procedure, which is probably more costly than doing it another way.

2. Canada has socialized medicine, so the cost of pharmaceuticals are set at a certain level. This set price applies to everybody, even US citizens that cross over to Canada to buy the drugs. The same goes in Australia. Australia has a cap on drug prices according to my wife and the industry is subsidized by the government.

Personally, I do not want socialized medicine. Why should I be taxed even more for people that do not take care of themselves. Kind of like me having to pay for people that decide to live in a hurricane zone or in New Orleans.