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Should We All Move to Canada?

The high cost of prescription medications in the United States has been troubling health care providers and their patients for years. Physicians worry that it will do no good to prescribe a medication to someone who won't be able to afford to buy it, and patients who try to save money by taking less than the prescribed dose worry that that they're putting their health in danger. Any failed medical treatment that harms a patient is fertile ground for a lawsuit against the physician, even if he or she is not the one to blame. Should medical practitioners suggest imported drugs to their patients who might otherwise not be able to afford their prescribed medications?

24 minute read March 30, 2005 at 11:00 AM
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ALM Staff and Law Journal Newsletters
Should We All Move to Canada?

The high cost of prescription medications in the United States has been troubling health care providers and their patients for years.

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