The Booker bashing is why we lose.

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12. We don't have Big Pharma here in WA but our Senators voted against it, too,

because the bill is flawed.

We've already had a problem in Seattle with adulterated drugs coming through Canada. The problem is that while Canada has high standards for the drugs they produce there, they have no regulation of drugs that are produced in other countries and sent through Canada to the U.S. So postal inspectors in Seattle have discovered shipments of fake and adulterated drugs that came from Canada but were produced in other countries.

The bill those 12 Senators voted against wouldn't have solved that problem.

Patty Murray said that she likes the idea of reimportation, but that bill had flaws. But my personal opinion is it won't work, period. The Canadian system is 1/10th the size of ours. Do you really think the drug companies will be cooperative in shipping ten times the product they're now shipping to Canada, so that we can them reimport it at much cheaper prices here? And if they won't greatly increase their exports to Canada, then who will fill the gap? Countries without the standards and regulations that Canada and the US have, who will be happy to sell their fake products at a reduced price.

Our Federal government should be negotiating prices with the drug companies, just like they do in every other civilized country, not trying to piggyback onto the much smaller Canadian system.