Prescription Drug buying in Canada exposes who Free Trade, NAFTA benefits

[eablair3]

Does anyone else find it interesting that Free Trade only seems to work in favor of huge corporations? When the common, ordinary American seeks to engage in free international trade, business and the government outlaw that.

We have Americans going to Canada to buy prescription drugs that are cheaper and that they can afford. They even take organized bus trips out of this country to Canada to go on "buying sprees." Small businesses were started in the U.S. to make it easier for Americans to buy these prescription drugs from Canada in the U.S. The judiciary recently shut down one such company that operated and had outlets in 26 states.

If there is this thing called "free trade", how come the common, ordinary American cannot freely trade with Canada?

We do have this thing called NAFTA, which has been used to ship American jobs out of the country. Canada is even part of NAFTA. Why can't Canada sell the prscription drugs in "free trade" here in the U.S.? And, why can't American citizens open up small businesses to meet a huge demand to import prescription drugs from Canada for sale to Americans who need the drugs cheaper due to limited incomes? It seems that NAFTA and free trade only works for the interests of certain parts of society.

It hust seems like more evidence of what today's America has become -- a country to promote, benefit and protect the interests of the large corporations (in this instance the pharmaceutical companies), who are huge donors to politicians, esp Repug politicians.

[Maple]

1. Small businesses

and ordinary citizens trade freely across the border all the time.

Including prescripton drugs.

If Americans can't do so...guess who is causing the blockage?

[Malva Zebrina]

2. Pretty much so

:shrug: what can the average senior citizen do about it? If I had it to do over, I would buy some acreage and farm it for subsistence as well as for independance and peace of mind--including growing herbs for treating health problems. Seniors can do as much as the average Joe, not a senior citizen, can do about it! There is no way that there will be any relief if the pharma companies have their way and the Republicans keep trying to protect the pharma companies instead of caring about the people and their needs. I know of a person who buys penicillin in the pet department of their local store-ie the tropical fish aisle. Really.