As I mentioned in this post from just last August, I take one very expensive prescription medicine. (And I take two cheap ones. Before I lost all that weight, I used to take nine prescriptions of varying price tags.) At the time of that posting, I said the medicine cost me ten bucks a month through my insurance and that if I didn't have that insurance, it would cost me $320 a month.
Things have changed in five months. The prescription now costs me $25 a month and the pharmacist tells me that if I didn't have insurance, it would be $525. And again, that's per month, which (assuming no further increases, which is probably a silly assumption) is $6,300 annually. The monthly cost if one were to buy the exact same thing in Canada — made in the same factory with the same formula — is $280.
There are a lot of things wrong with our health system but there's a biggie right there. Some people, pure and simple, cannot afford $6,300 a year, even for medication on which their health depends. Republicans want people to be able to shop around and buy health insurance from any state in order to get the best price. How about letting us shop around and buy from Canada if that gets us the best price?