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      Or cap them, or require that all Canadian customers are served first and only allow exporting extra capacity.

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      Yep, and it’s something that we already do

      Earlier this year, Ozempic was in high demand by those looking to lose weight. While it works for weight loss, it’s also a type 2 diabetes medication. A lot of people regularly use it, and shortages would put those people at risk

      So we rightfully blocked exports

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-ozempic-restriction-1.6815456

      British Columbia is introducing a new regulation to stop online and mail-order sales of diabetes drug Ozempic to people who do not live in Canada or who are not in B.C. to make the purchase in person.

      The changes come after it was discovered a doctor in Texas with a Nova Scotia medical licence wrote 17,000 Ozempic prescriptions in three months to mostly American patients. The majority of those prescriptions were filled at two B.C. online pharmacies where the drug costs much less.

      Ozempic is an injectable medication for Type-2 diabetes that has become wildly popular through advertising and social media influencers as an off-label weight loss drug. On TikTok, #Ozempic has reached over 850 million views.

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    The US could also just pass a law to cap the prices of their drugs instead of importing them. But they don’t have the balls to regulate as tightly as we do because ultra rich people might lose some money, and they have this unhealthy obsession with an unrestricted free market.

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    Moneyarchy:

    Money has zero responsibility for what its machinations do, right?

    Human-morality has no place in moneyarchy, right?

    So, no moneyarchists should have any right to complain.


    People who hold to other moralities, have been complaining all along.


    Make the legislation express your morality, if you find it expressing moneyarchy’s morality to be problematic.

    The “elected representatives” are representing who lobbies them, not who votes.

    As the system is engineered to be doing.


    Corrupt-systems cannot demonstrate coherent-integrity, because they haven’t got any, inside.

    IF that is a problem, THEN try forcing outright-integrity into the system, & see how long you get tolerated for…

    Natural Selection can weed-out integrity, if corruption gainst owning of the system.

    Just as it no-longer-is-possible for Rule Of Correct & Just Law to gain possession of the drug-cartel possessed Mexico,

    it no-longer is possible for corruption to be broken-from any “democracy” which is rigged to accommodate and protect corruption’s power/authority.


    This is all a wonderful example of "people hate other people’s corruption, but when they, themselves, gain power, then they want all the rot-basis power they can have, and will fight-for it all they can, demonstration of our unconscious-mind’s reality.

    “Physician, HEAL THYSELF 1ST.” is the prescription required,

    but who’d do that??

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