I'm a little bit confused.
The Bush administration insists that we shouldn't be able to import medication from Canada. Nor should people be allowed to go to Canada to get drugs that cost fewer than 3 arms and 2 legs.
So I was thus surprised to read an article on the shortage of flu vaccine which reported that President George W. Bush said Wednesday night that the U.S. is working with Canada to replace flu vaccine that could not be supplied by a British factory.
Canada?
CANADA?
Great America calling on "socialist" Canada for health care assistance? That's like Zimbabwe, the breadbasket of Southern Africa, needing international food assistance. It's inconceivable.
A cycnic might think the anti-drug importation campaign is lead by big pharamceutical companies.
Not so, say officials.
The purported logic against drug importation is that American authorities can not assure the safety of drugs coming from other countries, especially ones which have the obviously inferior system of [insert ominous music]... SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
Listening to conservatives, I'd thought anything medical coming from Canada should be dealt with like radioactive waste, because Canada's health care system (singular, according to them) is so bad that it's worse than the health care systems in Africa or Liberia.
Besides, it's not like Canada has anything that could possibly be of superior or even equal quality to what we Yanks (who can afford it) can get.
I'd rather die of the flu than benefit, even indirectly, from [dun dun dun]... SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
Sheesh!
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