All that you need to know is in today’s Harris Poll. 77% of Americans think that it’s unreasonable for pharma companies to try to make it impossible for American consumers to buy drugs from Canadian pharmacies over the Internet. Yet only 7% of Americans have done so.

If I was running a public policy group at PhRMA I’d be thinking of ways to try to beat a graceful retreat here. After all, do you think President Dean’s FDA will be quite as helpful as the current one? Better to have Canadian prices on imports rather than get this far enough up the American political consciousness that we end up with Canadian-style pricing here.