Rep. Bernard Sanders, an independent from Vermont who last year started taking senior citizens on bus trips into Canada to buy prescription drugs, has said it is a moral outrage that U.S. pharmaceutical companies can charge Americans three times what they charge for drugs in Canada. And every one is saying it's become the issue. Some of them are significantly cheaper. You would go over the border. Some economists contend that because Americans pay higher prices, they are subsidizing inexpensive drugs for people whose countries control prices.
Canadian pharmacists are critical of the U.S. legislation.
We consider that an attempt by the U.S. to avoid controlling their own drug markets to try to push people to go and get cheaper drugs elsewhere without consideration for the impact that it would have on the country from which they are trying to get that medication. Willems said the law would be at odds with Canadian laws that attempt to preserve low prices by preventing Canadians from selling wholesale to the United States. We are still a sovereign nation. You don't just do this. U.S. critics of the legislation have said that opening the borders to imported drugs could prompt counterfeiting and tampering.