U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs from Canada

Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by slg on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:15PM (#20576809)

>If we wanted a system that's more equitable, we could create a law that sets the maximum price for medicine in the US at some multiple of what's charged abroad.

Should people in third world countries being excluded from the chance of receiving lifesaving drugs just because they happen to live in a place that isn't as economically successful as the US? Maybe I could be convinced if you pegged the prices to some measure of local purchasing power, but almost any proposal that amounts to poor people not being able to afford medical care in the name of capitalism is verging on immoral in my opinion.

EDIT: It is disappointing that I get downvoted on HN for basically stating the controversial opinion that "people shouldn't die from being poor".

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Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by programbreeding on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:19PM (#20576840)

I completely agree with your point. But as someone that lives in the US and is married to a person that requires prescriptions that can cost $30,000+/month each (cystic fibrosis), I'm in a first world country and am being excluded from the chance to receive lifesaving drugs.

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Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by slg on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:22PM (#20576872)

That is our problem to fix and we are a rich enough country to do that ourselves without offloading that problem onto poor people abroad.

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