Reply #3: My point is why truck the drugs to Canada and re-import them

[karynnj]

I am wondering if the fact that they have a monopoly for several years should mean that they - for those drugs - the drug company should be a regulated monopoly - as the Bell System was (and its descendants still are) when it was the only long distance carrier. The fact that they sell the drug for so much less to Canada shows that they have been abusing their monopoly.

I agree that the Canadian government represents a huge number of potential customers - and that is why they like major insurance companies can negotiate a better price if there are competing drugs for the same conditions. It just seems that the root of the problem is that we allow the drug companies the opportunity to be monopolies.