Nah. Plently of middlemen would be happy to arbitage a drug in canada that costs $20 and sell a million doses to Florida for $25. Aint no one gonna buy those million doses for the same $340 they can pay in the US.
Eventually, market forces will force the middleman to take a small profit at most, as they would be undercut by another middleman who would. Drug prices would pretty closely match at that point.
In a world of lots of small middlemen, sure. But in a world where you only have a handful of middlemen that can all collude with eachother to fix prices high? looks pointedly at several entire markets
These drugs will get sold in the US at the same price as the rest. No way will big pharma be undercut.
Nah. Plently of middlemen would be happy to arbitage a drug in canada that costs $20 and sell a million doses to Florida for $25. Aint no one gonna buy those million doses for the same $340 they can pay in the US.
Eventually, market forces will force the middleman to take a small profit at most, as they would be undercut by another middleman who would. Drug prices would pretty closely match at that point.
In a world of lots of small middlemen, sure. But in a world where you only have a handful of middlemen that can all collude with eachother to fix prices high? looks pointedly at several entire markets
That’s the beauty, they won’t have a choice. When it comes to pharma, the US is 110% anti-consumer.