Why are drugs cheaper in Canada and Europe than the drugs sold in America?

Why are drugs cheaper in Canada and Europe than the drugs sold in America?

Government involvement.

Same reason you used to be able to pay your way through college, but now that government subsidizes those loans...universities can charge whatever they want knowing students will be able to pay it.

The concept is the same.

America has a lengthy and expensive process of red tape before a drug can be put on the market and your timer for patents starts when you file them, not when the drug gets approved, so they have to make up 10 years of losses in 15 years of patent time.

Probably because we are paying for their military budget with our own troops and weapons so they have enough spare funding to support such things

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muh R&D
muh job creators
muh gubment regulations=communism

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Found the neocon warhawk military-industrial complex shill. We don't need or want you destablizing the middle east for oil so we get flooded with refugees.

>b-but russia is evil!
Fuck off Hillary.

the fuck are you talking about
I want us to pull out of all this bullshit, no more bases in europe, no more meddling in the middle east

Our own neocon and democrat war hawks want this shit, the american people do not

The moment we pull out those European countries will have to start paying for their own shit

Because the US government enforces price fixing

Don't fool yourself. You aren't doing us a favor with your interventionism. Healthcare is affordable for other reasons than the fact we have normal defense spending.

Administrative costs

I dont want interventionalism, I want american isolationalism

Enough of our men have died from stupid wars to put democracy in shitholes that arent ready for it
Time will be tough for Europe for a little while without our military might constantly there but youll be better in the long run just as will be

Because thanks to the government, it is much more expensive to develop drugs in America and when yo go through the bullshit process, you are guaranteed a monopoly. It's funny how liberals complain about high prices yet praise government monopolies.

You've only installed dictatorships and caused wars. We will be better off without you.

But keep drinking the "Europe is lost without US interventionism" kool-aid

Europe *wont* be lost without us

One we pull out youll be able to grow and become *better* nations

If only our idiot politicans would do the same for africa and let those savages fucking starve so theyll start farming

There's a difference between healthcare being a public service and the government granting monopolies.

The byproduct of unchecked capitalism.

Stop replying to the toothpaste.

youre right, he's just trolling and it aint workin

clearly it is since you keep replying to him, idiot.

At least im not a Canadian

Price controls in Canada and Europe.

Which is one reason they're so much more expensive in America. The drug companies have costs they have to cover, and if the marketplace isn't allowed to set a price that works for both consumer and producer (due to price controls), then the drug companies have to charge more in countries without price controls to make their drugs profitable enough to stay in business.

So every time some fag leaf brags about how great their drug prices are in Canada, thank him for the high prices you have to pay in America.

Big Pharma spends very little money on R&D compared to how much they spend on lobbying in Congress and buying patents from the dudes that actually come up with the good shit.

Drug companies can mark up their goods so high in the USA because they have distribution monopolies.

Get generics.

Just curious, but do you really believe that big pharma is losing money in some countries but continues to operate there?