My thoughts:
As we saw during COVID, it’s very important that we improve our pharmaceutical manufacturing and medical supply chains here in Canada. I also see this as a reason why an extensive national pharmacare plan is important. Countries that have implemented such programs have been able to negotiate better deals for the drugs by acting as a single unit instead of many smaller provincial and private organizations. Instead of cutting healthcare services, we could stop paying unreasonably high prices on pharmaceuticals.
Finally, maybe it’s time that Canada reevaluated some of the IP protections that american pharmaceutical companies get.
U.S. patients will absolutely pay the price. The importers of said products consume the tariff costs and pass them along to the consumers.
I’d say Trump really is the dumbest goddamned motherfucker on the planet, but over 77 million people stupider than him thought he was the best choice.