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Canada a parasite for keeping drug prices low, says U.S. senator
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Sep 30, 2009 10:09pm |
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| Author | Lee-Anne Goodman |
| News Date | Thursday, October 1, 2009 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON — An American legislator called Canada "parasitic" on Wednesday in an exchange with a Liberal MP as she testified before a congressional committee on how to combat soaring medical costs in the United States.
The U.S. is the world leader in medical innovations and technological breakthroughs, Republican Sen. Bob Corker charged, yet Canada gets all the financial benefit by selling drugs and medical devices at prices irresistible to Americans.
"One of the things that has troubled me greatly about our system is the fact that we pay more for pharmaceuticals and devices than other countries, and yet it's not really our country so much that's the problem, it's the parasitic relationship that Canada and France and other countries have towards us," the Tennessee lawmaker told Carolyn Bennett.
"Meaning that you set prices and unfortunately all the innovation, all the technological breakthroughs, just about, take place in our country ... you benefit from us and we pay for that and I resent that."
Bennett, a family doctor and one-time minister of state for public health, was one of five people testifying before the Senate special committee on aging.
Canada's history is, in fact, rich with medical breakthroughs, including the discovery of insulin, the first identification of stem cells and the invention of the first artificial kidney machine. |
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