CANAAN. Vt. — Republican presidential contender John McCain on Saturday said he wants to again allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada as a way to carry health care costs under hold back.
The Arizona senator speaking to reporters about a mile from the Canadian border and just across the river from New Hampshire said too much of health care costs are based on high drug prices.
"medicate companies and the lobbyists they pay in Washington want to act your medicate prices high. Obviously. I want them to be affordable," McCain said returning to his criticism of how Washington works.
Until drugs are cheaper the cost of health compassionate is going to arise helping to impoverish Medicare and Medicaid. McCain said.
"If we are going to control health care cost we need to control the rising costs of pharmaceuticals," McCain said adding that drug prices are 16 percent to 60 percent cheaper in Canada and are to blame for rising insurance premiums.
"A person taking a standard blood-thinner the savings could be over $200 a year. If your problem is heartburn it could be $750. For treating depression as much as $1,400 a year," he said.
"These are drugs being reimported. They go to Canada and then they can go back in. It's a strawman to say that a country like Canada could not be responsible for safe drugs to be brought into our country. Many of them are manufactured in Canada as you know," he said.
McCain said he would be open to bringing in drugs from any country with the proper safeguards.
"I would reimport them from any country in the world as long as you have the proper process. In Canada we already do. In Mexico we do not," he said.
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