Canada Warns Against Prescription Sales to U.S.
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Canada’s health minister said that his country “cannot be the drug store of the United States” -- a warning that came as several states were pushing to buy low-cost prescription drugs north of the border.
“It is difficult for me to conceive of how a small country like Canada could meet the prescription drug needs of approximately 280 million Americans without putting our own supply at serious risk,” Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said in a speech at Harvard Medical School.
Business has been booming for Canadian Internet pharmacies.
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