Word: canadas
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Pierre Trudeau 80 The dashing Prime Minister fought Quebec separatism and proved a temporary antidote to Canada's staid, fusty image...
Cheaper prescription drugs - everybody in Washington wanted them last year, and the Republicans had a plan. Pharmacists and drug wholesalers would be allowed to buy American brand-name medicines that had been exported to Canada and other countries where drug prices are controlled. The reimported drugs then could be sold more cheaply to American consumers...
...thrust of the plan is rather odious from a free-marketeers' perspective. Canada employs socialized medicine to provide U.S.-made medicines at lower prices. America's free-market system, which makes drug companies (gasp!) profitable, also motivates them to develop the blockbuster drugs that Americans are so sick of paying market prices for. The plan would try for the best of both worlds, using Canada's socialized medicine as an end-run around U.S. pricing - and screwing U.S. drug-companies out of their profit margins in the process...
Phil Collins' You'll Be in My Heart beats Blame Canada at the Oscars...
...fellow Democrats: Do not flee to Canada yet! George W. Bush is not stupid, and he is not mean...