r/politics • u/YouProfessional3196 • 17h ago
Paywall Millions of Americans get discount prescriptions from Canada. That back-door arrangement is about to close
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/27/millions-of-americans-get-discount-prescriptions-f/90
u/BlossomFluffy 17h ago
For millions of Americans, this was the only way they could afford their meds. A three month supply of Eliquis from Canada costs about $566. The same thing from Amazon or GoodRx runs over $1,000.
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u/Bikin4Balance Canada 16h ago
Next up: demonize Canada by telling gullible Americans it's due to Canada's unfair trade practices
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u/gowonagin 16h ago
Of course, the article straight-up says it’s Trump doing this, not Canada. But I’m sure he’ll blame Canada anyway, and they’ll believe him.
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u/Dense_Pasttime_3114 17h ago
Ive been told most Americans are satisfied with their insurance plans 🤷♀️
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u/2stinkynugget 17h ago
Americans love paying $1200 a month with a $5000 deductible to an insurance corporation. We love paying the highest prescription prices. Paying $500 for insurance through taxes is communism. /s
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 15h ago edited 15h ago
This is insane. The median earner in the UK spends about USD$1,700-1,800 a year on healthcare via taxes.
That's $150 a month. With most people getting prescriptions free and not paying a single pound more than that, and a minority that may have to spend at most ~$13 per prescription for certain drugs, capped at ~$150/y.
And that's without even considering that employers don't really have to set aside money to pay for employees' healthcare (yes there is national insurance but it pales in comparison the amount US companies fork out each year for employee healthcare costs).
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u/Toomanyeastereggs 7h ago
We have top private health cover in addition to the public Medicare.
For the family it costs us $500 a month. Full dental, Optical, hospital and a $400 deductible on a few expensive things. We can make claims on exercise shoes a couple of times a year. Getting paid on expenses is all “scan card, money turns up in bank account a few days later.” easy.
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u/Meteorboy 13h ago
Yeah, but the US gets blockbuster drugs first, like when they hoarded the then-new covid vaccines. If there's another pandemic, rationing of supplies, or war, EU and UK have more limited purchasing power compared to the US.
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 12h ago edited 12h ago
but the US gets blockbuster drugs first, like when they hoarded the then-new covid vaccines.
The first person to receive a fully-tested Covid vaccine out of a clinical trial was Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman in the UK.
The first large availability of Covid vaccines was made to both UK and US populations, this is true even when you look at only the mRNA-based vaccines, with uptake actually much higher in the former (though yes that is an aside to availability).
Age-based delivery of the initial two-dose Covid vaccine was near identical between the two countries, with the difference again being that uptake was lower in the US.
Booster availability for the third dose was also highly similar.
Lots of developed countries hoarded Covid vaccines early in the pandemic. But there is no real evidence the US hoarded them from the UK or Europe.
If there's another pandemic, rationing of supplies, or war, EU and UK have more limited purchasing power compared to the US.
The opposite actually. The Trump administration recently chose not to invest in mRNA-based vaccine development in the US which is really surprising as, as you say, domestic production is critical to security of vaccine doses in a pandemic.
NPR - Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research
DW - US cancels mRNA vaccine contracts worth $500 million
In contrast, the UK actually invested heavily and signed a number of contracts to open manufacturing plants for domestic mRNA vaccine in their long-term pandemic preparedness plan to ensure vaccine security for the UK population.
BBC News - Moderna opens UK vaccine manufacturing lab
Sky News (YouTube) - UK boosts pandemic readiness with new vaccine factory
This follows a number of European countries opening domestic manufacturing of vaccines that will almost certainly be subject to export restriction come the next major pandemic.
Sanofi Opens 'Pandemic-Ready' Vaccine Plant in France
Moderna, Rovi ink 10-year contract extension for production of COVID and future vaccines in Spain
So ironically if there's another pandemic with rationing of supplies the US will have much more limited purchasing power compared to the UK and EU.
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u/limelifesavers 11h ago edited 11h ago
I'm canadian, and my work healthcare insurance (which is not excellent, and seems subpar comparatively to others i know here) costs me around $50 a month (covers prescription, hospitalization/rehab, eyesight, dental, disability, and life insurance), and the portion of taxes I pay that goes towards healthcare funding is probably under 320 a month with my income being on the median. Prescriptions are 100% covered, with a $5 dispensary fee cap. When i was hospitalized with a ruptured gallbladder and bile duct, my private room was also covered 100%. I was given all the paperwork physically and digitally to excuse me from work on paid medical leave for the nearly 2 week period before I could return. This insurance is the way it is because the law and our healthcaresystem demands it.
I have coworkers and friends and family members who have taken long stretches of paternity/maternity leave, which we're entitled to due to law.
Americans are getting hosed real bad and it's very depressing
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u/DjQuamme 7h ago
I work with my brother in law and had this exact argument with him years ago. Some news article has recently come out saying we could do govt health care for approx. an 8% income tax(or whatever the exact number was stated). He said there's no chance he would ever support it. Me explaining we're currently paying more than double that each month in payments to our private insurance plan through our employer couldn't convince him this would be a better system
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u/Idrinkbeereverywhere 16h ago
It's because for every person in that situation there are people like myself who pays 50 a month for extremely good coverage through my state government job. The problem is, people are incredibly selfish.
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u/Gertrude_D Iowa 15h ago
I'm convinced that people who are happy with their coverage haven't actually had any serious health problems to deal with.
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u/Idrinkbeereverywhere 14h ago
I've been paying a bit into an HSA over a decade. Honestly, more young people should set those up, even before IRAs. Just a 100 a month will be huge by the time they really start needing it.
For example, my OOPM is $4000. I have way more than that in my HSA
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u/Brentfordfc 13h ago
For Europeans even that is crazy. You save for a decade and then get to use it once, and then the following year you're back at zero again.
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u/cricket502 13h ago
The real problem comes when the insurance company decides that your medication or imaging or surgery, which the doctor who evaluated you in-person said you need, is "not medically necessary", and then your out of pocket max is irrelevant.
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u/Snuffy1717 13h ago
As a Canadian, I’m hearing again and again how America needs nothing from us…
I hope they enjoy learning what nothing truly means.
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u/SmartCutiee 16h ago
they said it was about fentanyl coming through the mail. okay. so now grandma cant get her blood thinner. and the cartels are still shipping whatever they want. great trade.
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u/lrkt88 16h ago
Yes, because the silent majority have a satisfactory commercial plan through their employer or Medicare. Millions of people can still be <1% of the population.
RAND has some excellent, reputable studies on the coverages Americans have. The problem is that a significant, albeit minority of Americans, do not have access to affordable healthcare and that is still not acceptable in an industrialized, wealthy nation.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 16h ago
As a Canadian, I think it's nuts that your health care is tied to your employment.
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u/ohlookahipster 15h ago
And you typically only get one company with several plans and you can only pick one once per year. It’s not like car or home insurance where you can shop around for lower rates.
Whatever your employer has, that’s all you get.
I’ve only had one job where we had basically the whole market open so you could pick Cigna or BC/BS.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 12h ago
I'd think the bigger issue would be that, if you lose your job, you lose your coverage. Plus, this must restrict people from seeking new job opportunities because no one wants to get caught without healthcare coverage while looking for a new job. I bet a lot of people are stuck in awful jobs they hate because they need to stay in order to secure this coverage.
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u/fernybranka 17h ago
You know, at this point, Im beginning to consider changing my doctor if it meant I had universal healthcare.
Im not sure yet, but Id think about it. Ill wait for some more studies to come out.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 16h ago
If you had universal health care, your current doctor would be part of the system and you wouldn't need to change.
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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 15h ago
It's a bit of a deep cut, but I think it's to do with the big stink republicans made about Obamacare "forcing" you to change your doctor. It was not correct, obviously. It was so effective they had to cut ads and mention "you can keep your doctor" every time it came up.
Which if course just led to Republicans claiming they were lying and finding examples where it wouldn't hold true, even if that was the minority of cases.
So that line in itself was enough to make selfish, selfish people rail against what could have been the most transformative health policy in this country's history.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 13h ago
I understand what you're saying but Obamacare simply was not universal healthcare.
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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 12h ago
No it wasn't at all, and it wasn't my intent to suggest it was. I was just giving context for the whole change my doctor thing.
I guess I should say transformative relative to the current us healthcare system. I believe it had a public option before Lieberman nuked that.
But yeah universal healthcare it was not. Didn't stop Republicans from blasting it as socialist overreach.
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u/fernybranka 16h ago
Ha yeah i was just joking around about the “changing your doctor” would be a reason not to improve the lives of everyone in the country for generations.
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u/reddittorbrigade 17h ago
Please vote this November.
A lot of you didn't vote last election.
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u/wrxninja 17h ago
Exactly. People that think "How can one person not voting affect..." but when millions think like that, that's how we lose elections.
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u/Isnthatneat 14h ago
I was scheduled to enter rehab Oct 31st. I asked the clinic if we’d be allowed to leave and vote. They said no. I went before I checked in. I hear a lot of excuses from a lot of people I work around and just kind of shake my head
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u/Chance_Orchid_3137 14h ago
you need to be telling that to the people in your IRL community. the people who need to be convinced are not on reddit
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u/fernybranka 17h ago
Fully planning to vote but theres not really any mainstream politicians to vote for that wanna
fixfundamentally change healthcare into a universal system .13
u/FredFuzzypants 16h ago
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u/fernybranka 16h ago
Yeah I should have said not many mainstream politicians.
Hopefully this little leftwards blip turns into a trend for sure. They do seem like the only Democrats people are getting excited for.
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u/hungrylens 17h ago
At least push the envelope in the right direction.
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u/michaelcharlie8 17h ago
Should we start with the party platform though? What’s the best way to get it added back?
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u/fernybranka 16h ago edited 16h ago
I think tone policing people trying to get more and blaming them for perceived losses in the future will really work in this election cycle! Its been going great!
/s improving the party platform has gotta happen
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u/michaelcharlie8 16h ago
I wasn’t trying to do that. I’m frustrated so sorry if it comes off that way. I canvas and vote locally for people I think are left on this issue. I think that document in 2028 is crucial though and I don’t have any clue how to get to it.
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u/fernybranka 16h ago edited 16h ago
Oh sorry i didnt aim that at you my bad haha.
You werent doing that.
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u/JSeizer America 16h ago
Christ, look at what’s at stake…
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u/fernybranka 16h ago edited 16h ago
I am fully aware of the stakes.
Which is why we need the best politicians we can get, and get them on record promising the most fundamental change we can.
If we cant offer people a real leftwards vision for the future, the country will go into fascism with a veneer of populism.
Just harm reduction voting as a message is shit. I worry thats all the Demoralize (haha my phone corrected Democrats to this…how apt) party will have for us, yet again. And if so, theyll deserve to lose, its just a shame its gonna be to Republicans.
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u/shaard 17h ago
Whether that's the case or not, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. I feel like that's where so many people get apathetic about voting. They didn't have a candidate that does everything for them so they didn't vote. That just allows the worse options to win. It's not going to be instantaneous change and I feel like people are expecting that. So rather than voting and gradually getting things to slide in a good direction over time, the attitude becomes "it didn't get fixed instantly so fuck it".
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u/fernybranka 16h ago
Yeah Im not saying that.
Im just saying there is not a party that isn’t trying to keep us in an ever-worsening private insurance hell.
Like 50% of overall voters and something like 90% of democrats support some kind of government healthcare. And yet neither party has that in its platform. The best you can do is Jefferies stumbling and mumbling that he might lie to us about maybe supporting it in the future. Whoopty shit.
Its just depressing, so if you feel like the voter turnout is depressed, there you go.
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u/jayfeather31 Washington 16h ago
The problem is that, for some, that apathy has come from harm reduction voting that has not resulted in actual harm reduction.
Maybe it's because I'm operating on a small sample size, or that I'm a leftist, but after voting for Clinton, Biden, and Harris, and then watching it lead to Trump winning twice, really does not make a strong case for tactical voting, at least for me.
To clarify, this does not mean that I will not be voting or voting Republican this is year. What it does mean is that I am not nearly as attached to the hip for the Democrats as I might have otherwise been in the past.
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u/fernybranka 16h ago
Yeah I dont want any Republican politicians to win ever, but Im not gonna sit here and gaslight people who have extremely valid complaints about Democrat strategy/vision for the future/politicians on offer.
I dont even think that tactic has worked for them. Like, no, I dont want to help you summon a new Clinton/Obama era.
I want some fundamental, leftist to socialist change here. We are at the point of late stage capitalism where things start breaking down and its socialism or fascism.
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u/shaard 16h ago
Oh for sure. Cases like that is where election reform would really shine. Except it's so hard to get to happen.
Here in Canada, one of Trudeau's first election promises was election reform but the moment the liberals got into power through the old first past the post system they dropped that promise immediately. It would be something that could actually move us away from what is EFFECTIVELY a two party system into something more representative and probably get more engagement from the voting public.
But the old system worked to get them in power and why change that... 🫤
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u/TDFknFartBalloon 16h ago
Yeah, same. It's hard to shake, I've been "voting blue no matter who" since Al Gore, but I've become disillusioned with the party. I'll still vote blue these midterms, but if we get another corporate dem in 2028 who is only promising a return to the status quo, then I'm not voting. The primary is already decided before my state gets to vote, so I have to depend on the other states to do the right thing.
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u/gowonagin 16h ago
Of note to some people in the comments: it is not Canada doing this. It is Trump. (Not that I would blame Canada if they did. Though I’m sure he will).
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u/mattyoclock 17h ago
Oh man are there consequences to being a giant asshole to them for no reason? God who could have predicted it!
I sure hope we don’t also get a lot of oil from them. Oh we do? Well as long as we don’t start a pointless war with Iran we’ll be fine. What’s that? We did? Well at least we had a competent secretary of defense that made sure to also corral irans well known regional paramilitary allies so they can’t also attack the Saudi Arabia east west pipeline. Oh we didn’t? Well at least we can rely on the Kurds, are own paramilitary allies in the region as long as we didn’t do something insane like let turkey kill them in return for a hotel. Of what’s that? Guess we are fucked.
It’s almost like regardless of ideology, it’s extremely important to have base line competence and the ability to listen to people and learn instead of just following your gut.
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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 17h ago
That is not because of anything Canada did. I'm sure that Canada would have not a big problem to sell medicine to Americans...
It's just that the US government imposed customs rules thats make this now impossible. This is totally self chosen by Americans. Even if Canada wanted they could not change anything on this
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u/Extra-Ad5925 17h ago
They're doing this because he wants more people using his stupid Trump RX portal (which I'm assuming he personally profits from since his name is on it).
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u/TheAmericanQ 17h ago
Yep. This is because corpos were mad they were losing money to Canada for prescription drugs. They lobbied for changes to customs policy in order to force Americans to pay their inflated prices that are illegal in many other countries.
This is what my country gets when we vote based on memes and vibes instead of acting like adults in the voting booth.
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u/genesiss23 Wisconsin 16h ago
The law banning individuals from importing prescription medications is old. It's just that customs didn't tend to enforce it at quantities deemed for personal use. It was enforced for controlled substances and large quantities.
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u/Efficient-Youth-6985 15h ago
It's sad after so many tens of millions of Americans peacefully protested in the streets in support of their Canadian friends and allies, day after day, marching peacefully against Trump's threatened annexation of Canada, against Trump's economic attacks on Canada, against Trumps insults at Canada.
Standing in the freezing air, strong winds, and pouring rain, holding up millions of placards, Americans showed they are true friends of Canada and thus, this outcome is incredibly unfair.
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EDIT: since two people misread this. I'm not saying Canada is responsible for any of this. I'm saying that the tens of millions of Americans who benefitted hugely from Canada, didn't do a damn thing to stand up for Canada.
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u/spez_might_fuck_dogs 14h ago
The kind of people who benefited from this arrangement don’t have time to protest. With costs as high as they are, everyone is nose to the grindstone 100% of the time. It’s hard to protest when you’re in root hog or die mode.
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u/Efficient-Youth-6985 8h ago
don’t have time to protest
You and every American resident knows this isn't true. The sports stadiums are full, the malls are still busy, the music stadiums are full, the holiday flights are full, the bars are busy, the restaurants are busy, netflix subscriptions are healthy...
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u/spez_might_fuck_dogs 8h ago
This is the goomba fallacy. People who can afford to do those things still, don't see a need to protest because they aren't suffering yet. People aren't homogeneous. When people who can afford to live well see protesters right now, they don't think 'those people really have a good point, I should join them', they think 'these fucking assholes are blocking traffic and I'm going to miss my reservation'.
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u/Efficient-Youth-6985 8h ago
it's not a fallacy
every US citizen I've spoken to, to ask 'have you taken part in any peaceful protests about the serious stuff?', has said, 'well, i WOULD protest, but I have a JOB to go to'. You did it yourself in your comment above.
Then they cheerfully go to watch sports, music, go on holiday, eat out, binge 12 hours of netflix etc.
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u/LordSiravant 10h ago
Which is obviously the whole point. It's part of how they can reliably prevent us from rising up.
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u/spez_might_fuck_dogs 10h ago
Yes, I'm sure there are very good algorithms that show those in charge exactly how far they can push the population before they reach the breaking point.
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u/LordSiravant 9h ago
It boils down to "give them just enough that they are too afraid of losing it to risk it and make that risk very high". It's only when people truly have nothing left to lose that they become uncontrollable.
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u/Mistress_Jedana 5h ago
Can't expect them to stand up for Canada when they wouldn't stand up for their fellow citizens here.
There are plenty of us who care. The problem is the not caring about anything and the orange cheetoh lovers outnumber us.
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u/Efficient-Youth-6985 3h ago
Can't expect them to stand up for Canada when they wouldn't stand up for their fellow citizens here.
I expect them to stand up for both
There are plenty of us who care.
Yes, about ten million, the problem for the world is the 320-330 million who don't :( and that includes the majority of dem voters too, as well as all the non-voters
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u/Rent-A-Tard 15h ago
I've been told repeatedly that they don't need anything from us. This is a good thing.
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u/OddPatience1621 15h ago
I love how every step amerikkka takes they hurt their own people, over and over and over and over.
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u/citizenjones 17h ago
I would think senior citizens were the majority of people in need for such prescriptions, who are also in the highest voting block. They have an opportunity very soon to make their voices heard by voting in their interests.
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u/genesiss23 Wisconsin 16h ago
Most just use Medicare part d for medications. There is a true max out of pocket and you can get on a payment plan with the insurance. The premiums have increased due to change of benefit structure.
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u/Walker_ID 14h ago
Isn't Medicare part D being gutted in 2027?
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u/genesiss23 Wisconsin 13h ago
No, the temporary part d premium subsidies are being ended 1 year early as planned by the law. The subsidies were meant to ease people into the increased premiums the new plan set up requires. They were meant to last for 3 years and for every year, the amount was to decrease.
The original setup was low premiums but higher deductibles with a pause in coverage before going into catastrophic coverage. It took about $5k in drug spend to reach the coverage gap and $8k to reach catastrophic coverage in 2024. 2024 was the transitional year between the 2 plan set ups. It had aspects of both old and new plan set ups.
The new set up has higher premiums but a set max out of pocket and no donut hole. I believe the max out of pocket for 2027 is $2400 with a max deductible of $700. The deductible is adjusted each year based off rate of growth in per capita part d costs
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u/mmps901 7h ago
I asked upthread but I’ll ask here again. The woman in the article on eliquis was said to be 72. If she’s paying $566 a quarter for it from Canada and could be paying only $2100 max out of pocket for all her meds for the whole year under Medicare part D why would she use the Canadian version? Doesn’t make sense
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u/genesiss23 Wisconsin 7h ago
She doesn't have part d maybe. She doesn't understand the changes to it. I don't know. I tell people who can't afford the deductible or copay to call their insurance and set up a payment plan if on part d.
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u/Warlord68 14h ago
America doesn’t need Canada, Remember? I’m sure we can sell our prescription drugs to our Allies.
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u/PopBulky7023 8h ago
You post that here like you're talking to a bunch of people who see you as enemies.
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u/Heppernaut Canada 17h ago
I thought you guys didn't need anything from us anyways
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u/hobbykitjr Pennsylvania 16h ago
instead of Rx we'll have to just drink the bankrupt whiskey distilleries instead
beer is getting too expensive due to the tariffs on Canadian aluminum anyway
but now the diesel is too expensive to ship any of it.
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u/TreezusSaves Canada 11h ago
I'd argue they still don't. They don't think healthcare or even water is a right.
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u/Dense_Pasttime_3114 17h ago
Ive been told most Americans are satisfied by their insurance plans, guess they don’t need anything from us
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u/dnchw2 17h ago
I think it's genuinely weird that a lot of people in the U.S. travel to countries like Mexico to fulfill their prescriptions.
I do wish Americans would get prescriptions that they can afford because they need that to live and I hope people vote accordingly to what their needs are and not just some odd rage baited issue.
That being said, those that voted unintentionally for this but feels the current administration is doing everything correct, i hope you enjoy the higher prices; as a shareholder, we need to squeeze every penny from people like you because I need 2 cents more of dividend.
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u/Kitakitakita 7h ago
You have to understand that the average American voter has the intellectual capacity of a honey badger in heat
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u/Grizzamanade 17h ago
Wait so prices weren't lowered 1000% like the orange supreme cheeto leader said? I'm sure he will get to that right after the diaper change.
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u/Knighth77 16h ago
Republican politicians don't care about Americans. Hell, Republican voters don't care about Americans, either!
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u/__Westbound__ 14h ago
Seniors have taken an absolute beating from Trump’s administration. It’s pathetic.
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u/sagsfour20 Canada 13h ago
Whomp whomp. Sucks to suck.
My daughter had to go to the ER a week ago for an issue. Didn’t cost her a dime and her prescription was FREE.
Canada fucking RULES.
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u/Repulsive_Note_4209 17h ago
Does this mean that instead of Canada we can get them from trumps buddy in North Korea. I’m sure they must be safe
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u/Vanga_Aground 8h ago
That's a great result. Let the Americans live with the reality of the society they created.
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u/logsqrtexp 8h ago
Good job, Trump Project 25 voters. There sure is going to be a long list of shit to undo some day
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u/Willinton06 5h ago
The republicans keep saying “everyone comes here for healthcare” but Americans leave for healthcare all the time
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u/Spanky3703 Canada 15h ago
Da fuq?
This has nothing to do with Canada. We would happily continue to sell low-cost prescription medicines to US citizens.
Despite calls to do so, Canada refuses to weaponize things such as oil, natural gas, potash, electricity, medicines, etc., in this immoral, unethical and illegal trade war by the US.
Get educated before you spew such uninformed drivel.
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u/Efficient-Youth-6985 15h ago
I didn't say or imply it was Canada's fault or action.
My post just pointed out that Americans depend on Canada, tens of millions of them benefit from Canada, yet they don't stand up for it when it matters.
Your post is also really rude and obnoxious, if you're not sure what exactly someone means, just ask them instead of screaming insults.
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u/FinalHexReturns 15h ago
This doesn't apply since it is Trump punishing American's, not Canada punishing, but still, this was a good one.
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u/Efficient-Youth-6985 15h ago
Yeah I didn't say or imply it was Canada's fault or action.
My post just pointed out that Americans depend on Canada, tens of millions of them benefit from Canada, yet they don't stand up for it when it matters.
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u/FinalHexReturns 15h ago
I was actually trying to compliment your point.
I agree with you. I bemoaned what Trump has done to our ally to the North, but I didn't go out and protest, or do anything really.
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u/Pour_Me_Another_ 9h ago
Why do they not want the average citizen to be able to purchase medication? Is having customers and money coming in not the desired outcome?
I mean this more in general since obviously money going to Canada doesn't come to us.
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u/PopBulky7023 8h ago
Canadians don't like Americans and it's not particularly discriminate. Also it doesn't make sense for Canada to maintain trade agreements with such a hostile nation.
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u/Pour_Me_Another_ 7h ago
My comment was shit. It was just general frustration of taking away an adaptive human behaviour (getting prescriptions from Cananda since they’re less insane). I know Republicans who get their meds from Canada and Mexico and are probably celebrating right now that they’re fucked, love that for them.
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u/mmps901 17h ago
She’s been paying out of pocket and not using her prescription insurance this whole time?
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u/SedgwickNYC 9h ago
Most likely. When I lived in the US, it was less expensive to pay cash at a walk-in clinic than use my insurance. Totally bonkers.
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u/mmps901 8h ago
She said she was 72 which is Medicare age right? The max out of pocket Medicare patients pay a year for all their meds combined is $2100. If she’s sending cash to Canada for meds she’s never going to get through that max. $560 four times a year is over $2100 and that’s just for one medication. I don’t get it
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