At least the door is cracked open and it's a start.

Of course, Big Pharma will fight to slam it shut again.

> The better solution is to allow parallel trade of pharmaceutical across borders.

No, no it's only a global economy when companies want to manufacture products using slaves in third world countries or they want to outsource programmers and call center employees, but not when consumers want to buy medications or DVDs at the prices they sell for in those same countries or even just want to get higher quality products they refuse to sell you here (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hershey-sues-shops-importing-br...)

Or simply set our prices to the average or median of something like 5 hand-picked other countries - and make that not only for Medicare/caid but also for everyone else. It's ridiculous that hasn't been done yet.

That doesn’t work because other countries already do that - set price reference to a basket.

You end up with a circular reference that spirals prices down.

At some point that price is lower than the net positive profit point.