To fight high drug prices, Utah will pay for public employees to go fill prescriptions in Mexico

People will point to the insurance lobby, but it's a pharmaceutical Lobby wanted to change one minor ingredient in the molecular structure of the medicine so they can keep the patent to themselves. You also have the litigation Lobby which basically sucks on the groin of both political parties as well as the doctors from the American Medical Association. I live in a single-payer system up here in Canada and my wife had an aneurysm at age 39 that was taken care of by Alberta Health Care not costing us a single penny aside from regular taxes and they use experimental drugs after the surgery that wouldn't have been allowed by the insurance companies anyway. 3 years later she's alive and walking well maybe suffering from minor headaches here and there but she's alive! I'm glad Utah going ahead and trying to get lower prices for medicines because the Pharmaceuticals purposely charge more in the first world than they do elsewhere though often in Europe or Canada, the medicines are cheaper because the government negotiates with them instead of just saying, okay whatever you want to charge!

I seen this and thought a civilian version of “duffel blog”...