McKenna Says Canada Can't Fix U.S. Prescription Drug Problems

McKenna dismissed concerns about the safety of drugs sold in Canada, saying Canada's regulatory regime was tougher than the U.S. one. But he did concede that companies from all over the world could be using Canadian Internet sites to sell drugs into the United States, an activity that was not as easy to police.

He said the debate over whether to expand drug sales from Canada into the United States masked a bigger issue of how prescription drug prices should be set in the United States.

"Don't think you are doing any favors to us by trying to open the United States market for Canadian drugs, because you are not," he said in the interview. "If you are doing that, you are doing it for your own reasons and you are avoiding dealing with the fundamental question of your drug pricing."

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