Politicians ranging from conservatives such as DeSantis to liberals such as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont have long pushed for importing lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada.
if both sides want cheaper drugs why not work together to make that happen by regulating big pharma and pushing for things like universal healthcare
fact that they don't just proves where their paychecks come from
Difference is that Bernie is going after it as a consolation prize since neither major party want to do either of the things you so rightfully advocate for, while DeSantis only wants to pretend in order to not lose the votes of people who can't afford medicine.
So he wants to import socialism from other countries? Doesn't sound very American of him.
You don't need anything resembling coherent "socialism" for this. Canada gets better drug prices because they negotiate for drugs collectively. That's it. That's what you have to do. That's literally it. Marx would find it hilarious and sad that this is what is being characterized as "socialism".
Seriously... Do you know what Canada does? The gov't buys wholesale from pharmaceutical companies. That's it. The Canadian gov't runs a drug Costco on behalf of its citizens and we all save.
Why doesn't Florida just negotiate their own wholesale drug prices from the manufacturers on its own? Why does it need Canada to do that for them?
It's outsourcing the socialism to us so that he can sell it as a "free market" solution.
No, he wants to pretend to make meds cheaper in order to court fascists that can't afford meds but otherwise are on board with his bigoted demagoguery.
Florida Gov. DeSantis ~~' Canadian drug import plan~~ goes nowhere ~~after FDA approval~~
the government in Ottawa has warned it won't allow medicines to be exported if Canadians could experience shortages as a result.
The Canadian government looking out for Canadians. Maybe the American government should look closer at why drug prices are lower in Canada and rather than just try to buy Canadian? We've all got aging populations, this problem is only going to get worse, and any change won't be implemented overnight. Would have been a great campaign issue to run on, rather than small business tax cuts and building a border wall.
Keep looking to chuds to save you, other chuds. Chocolate rations have gone up from 10 to 8.
Let's import drugs with negotiated prices instead of just... Negotiating prices...
God damn Republicans are dumb ass hypocrites.
Get this autoplay video bullshit out of here
"Sir, this is a Lemmy's"
You seriously want random videos to start playing when you look at a post? That's one of the worst things websites do.
I've got my ublock mostly taking care of those. Very few slip through these days, and it's typically when a website changes their design/layaout.
Right, because you don't want videos to autoplay when you go to a website.
This site should not have autoplay videos either.
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