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1. kimos · 1790034529 · focus · HN ↗

   This is actually tragic.

   I worked for an online pharmacy in Canada for many years, and it’s fraught and full of grey areas for sure. But so so many Americans count on importing generics to afford their medication. You’re talking several times the price difference for the same pills, life changing amounts of money for older people on fixed incomes with health problems. They will simply not be able to access their medication anymore.

   1. PunchyHamster · 1790034819 · focus · HN ↗

      I'd imagine even with duty added they'd still end up being multiple times cheaper

      1. hexapus · 1790035190 · focus · HN ↗

         Yeah, it would...and yet, they covered that as well with another recent change: Packages from foreign and Canadian online pharmacies will be prohibited from entering the U.S. if the same medication is sold domestically or if the foreign pharmacy targets U.S. buyers.

         1. kimos · 1790037351 · focus · HN ↗

            It is rarely enforced though. And the pharmacies will just replace it and ship it again.

            1. xethos · 1790047174 · focus · HN ↗

               It was rarely enforced, prior to what GP explicitely called out as a recent change, that will come into effect October 22. We'll see what happens by end-of-year, though I wouldn't count on pharmacies replacing and re-shipping

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