You're claiming that generics tend to be cheaper in Canada than the US. What are you basing this belief on?

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

Are we talking duties imposed on the generics, or generics imports outright banned?

Never interrupt your enemy when they are busy making a mistake.

Assuming there is no chicanery

They are not planning on winning any more elections from here on out, I don't know what other people saw on J6 to make them think that's not the strategy from now on, whenever they lose an election.

midterms are in November?

you're assuming media gives a lick about doing more than soundbites. The actual affect will be at best, 2 weeks after this is implemented, but probably 2 months while they actually figure out what legal means they can to infer which packages they can safely claim are foreign, along with actual foreign pharmacies giving 2 shits about todays shipping.

10 years of believing your color coded wave of choice is going to happen and still winding up with a 50-50 senate

the seats necessary to alter that aren't even open, how gullible do people have to be? well, not very, independents are the largest bloc now, but of the remaining partisans... hello? your algorithm is fake

The hoops are in place to ensure those at the top continue to get their take.

It is deliberate. Americans want the hoops because they hate poor people.

you said this as if we were developed nation :)

Starting Oct 22, 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.

Wasn't that already suspended in, like, 2025?

https://youtu.be/YvEH8zENOos?si=jROCWiVgT-YBeuI_

Or it means everyone has to deal with just how broken the system is, together, regardless of whether you knew the and could take advantage of the cheap way or not

Not that it'll play out like that, America still has a wealth inequality problem that will insulate some that would otherwise push for a less-broken system. But I'm optimistic by default, and the bright side is more people complaining, loudly, at how broken America's health care system is, and pushing for a fix.

There are so many problems with American healthcare that should have forced a real solution. But nothing much has happened.

But how long would the real solution take if it ever comes and what would the collateral damage be while we wait?

Various pharmacies in Canada will accept a US prescription and send you the medication via mail, usually at far cheaper than what you would pay for the same in the US.

This prevents it.

Means you can no longer legally^W practically buy far cheaper prescription medicines from Canada, Mexico, India, China etc and ship them to the US.

Their own primer on the topic: https://www.personalimportation.org/understand-the-issue

The people in charge betting they only need to count the "red" ballots this time?

Yes, and it has driven the decline of Temu and Shein

> managed to sell tariffs

He didn't manage to sell them. Everyone hates the tariffs, which are widely understood to have contributed to high prices and economic stagnation.

What he did manage to do is bully the abjectly servile GOP leaders of Congress into not doing anything about the tariffs, even though setting trade policy is expressly assigned to Congress by Article I of the Constitution, and Trump has repeatedly exceeded any legal authority.

He gets away with it because a lot of right-wing elites _love_ the idea of taxing consumption rather than income (or, heaven forbid, wealth).

Additionally, Trump, Hassett, etc are still blaming Biden for inflation caused by the tariffs... and a lot of their base would rather believe that than admit that they got suckered by an obvious scam.

this is their thing, yeah.

the C in CBP, "Customs", is specifically this kind of stuff.

It's not as simple as "You will now pay duty." Senders will be required to pay bond, and there will be a crushing load of new paperwork. Combined with extra duty, that will have the same effect as an outright ban.

This will be financially catastrophic for many Americans who may suddenly have to find hundreds of dollars a month.

VERY difficult to read. It seems almost everything important is hidden in the details somewhere.

I read a lot of it - enjoy reading the butt-covering “legal justifications” written in explaining why there was no public comment period, etc.