Hillary Clinton: You should be allowed to buy medicine from Canada

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6. Bernie and Hillary agree on something...sort of.

http://time.com/4043242/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-health-care/

Sanders’ plans to address rising drug costs are similar in important ways to Clinton’s. He has introduced legislation that would also allow Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of prescription drugs. Sanders also supports allowing the importation of drugs, and his legislation calls for individuals and pharmacists to import generic versions of prescription drugs from Canada, where drug prices are significantly lower than in the United States.

On Monday, he joined Rep. Elijah Cummings in writing an open letter to Turing Pharmaceuticals, the maker of a drug whose price skyrocketed from $13.50 per tablet to $750 after the company was purchased. The letter came the same day that Clinton tweeted that the drug’s price hike was “outrageous.”

Despite the similarities in the two Democrats’ plans, however, they have a fundamentally different vision of healthcare in the United States.

Clinton has made the defense of Obamacare a key platform of her campaign, vocally supporting of the Affordable Care Act and strongly criticizing Republicans for their calls to repeal it.

Sanders has offered a more radical plan, supporting a single-payer system of the kind common in Western Europe and Canada. Sanders’ proposal would establish healthcare as a right to all U.S. citizens and be paid for through government spending. Under his plan, for-profit health insurance companies would provide only supplemental coverage.