I saw an add tonight for 5 class action lawsuits against 5 different drugs.

Most of the big pharma break throughs used to come out of the USA. Lawsuits and regulations have curtailed the big break throughs greatly.

To the example of Canada, Canada tells the USA Pharma companies what they will pay per pill, if the drug companies wont sell for a lower price then they are allready selling the pills for, the Canadian Gov will break the pattent and produce the drugs in Canada with Canadian Companies and the US company is out all the money they spent in research in developement. Cheaper pills in Canada, but the US companies need to recur their costs for R&D and seak a profit for their shareholders so higher costs here in the USA.