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Great idea, lets import drugs from a country that doesn't make drugs. Where do they come from then? The plan is to buy the drugs we sold to Canada, back from Canada, in order to save money. Just fucking brilliant I tell ya.
It's white-label socialism.
DeSantis, die hard advocate of the free market, is facing a problem that the free market cannot solve. He needs a government solution, but he can't pitch one without losing his base.
So his solution is to get Canada to do it for him. These drugs are only cheaper in Canada because of government interventions like single payer healthcare, price controls and support for generics. DeSantis gets to take advantage of all of that without doing any of it for himself, and he gets to sell it as a capitalist free market solution.
Maybe Canada could raise the export taxes on said drugs
This isn’t a non paywall link…
Look in the description.