These timely efforts on their part come a few days after the democrats in the Washington State House turned up the heat by approving a "Canada-dependent" prescription program in the face of increasing Canadian resistance.
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OTTAWA — The Canadian government is considering a total ban on exports of price-controlled patented over-the-counter drugs as a way of preserving the country's lower prices for medicine, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said yesterday.
It is the newest of several options the government is studying that could severely crimp Canada's billion-dollar mail-order pharmacy market in the United States, although the emphasis previously had been on limiting prescription-drug sales by such tactics as requiring Canadian physicians to establish a relationship with a patient before signing a prescription, putting a halt to Canadian doctors who co-sign thousands of U.S. prescriptions without seeing the patient.
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