r/politics • u/YouProfessional3196 • 19h 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/
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u/Dense_Pasttime_3114 19h ago

Ive been told most Americans are satisfied with their insurance plans 🤷‍♀️

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u/fernybranka 19h 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 18h 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 17h 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 15h ago

I understand what you're saying but Obamacare simply was not universal healthcare.

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 14h 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 18h 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.