Rick Coddington, a columnist for the Mountain Mail newspaper of Socorro, New Mexico (population 8,879), is a political conservative with a wry independent streak.

He’s also — officially, at least — a lawbreaker. Because he is proud to tell all who will listen that he purchases his prescription medications from Canadian pharmacies.

As he writes in a recent column:

I buy drugs from Canada for pennies on the dollar. Even with prescription drug coverage, I can buy –- outright -– drugs from Canada for less than the co-pay costs to get them here! What does that tell you about the cost of prescriptions? It tells me the drugs actually cost less than the insurance co-pays! If you look at the “list price” of the drugs, you can see (in some cases) the profit is 300 to 400 percent!

The only difference in the drugs is the profit. The Canadian pharmacy from which I have been buying for years is obviously making money. In contrast to that, if you come down to the good-old U.S., not only are we paying three or four times what the drugs are worth, we are being taxed into oblivion to “bail out” the poor corporations that would just go broke if we tax-saps weren’t shoveling money to them.

Fortunately for Rick and the countless other Americans who save money every day by buying their medications from Canada, the FDA effectively permits individuals to purchase supplies of up to 90 days of their prescription drugs, even though the practice is officially against the law.

With U.S. public approval for Canadian drugs running at more than 70 percent, Washington politicians know they’d be messing with a hornet’s nest if they tried to stop you.

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