The House and Senate finally agree on 90-day supplies of prescriptions from Canada

The House and Senate agree on something!

Finally, the House and Senate Republicans reached an agreement that will allow Americans to bring a 90-day supply of prescription medications back across the border from Canada

For years Americans have shopped in Canada for lower cost medications. Saving on brand-name prescription drugs can be up to 80 percent lower in because Canadians cap their drug prices and don’t play the ridiculous “gouge the consumer” absurd games American companies do.

The agreement was reached this week as part of a Homeland Security spending bill that is moving through Congress, and would prohibit U.S. Customs agents from seizing up to 90-day supplies of prescribed medicines being brought into the U.S. from Canada. This comes in the same week that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced it plans to slash prices for generic prescriptions to $4.00.

Well, at least one American company is doing something!

A pre-election controversy over that enforcement policy threatens to divide House leaders as some are against lifting the import ban and others want cheaper drugs for the elderly. Meanwhile Democrats are pushing for broader access to imported drugs and accuse Republicans of trying to "blow smoke “.

Someone “just do something positive here”.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, brand-name drugs cost, on average, 35 percent to 55 percent less in other industrialized nations than they do in the United States. Supporters of importing drugs contend that the U.S. is subsidizing the cost of medicine for the rest of the world.

Wait…lets stop and think on that for a minute.

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