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Americans make long trek to Canada for affordable prescription drugs.
(From Agence France Presse)
It's not your idea of a typical drug run: two dozen pensioners on a coach headed for Canada in search of cholesterol-lowering drugs and blood pressure medication.
But lured by the prospect of big savings on their prescription drug bills, and subsidised by a US senator, 26 pensioners have turned out this day for the two-day, 1,100-mile (1,750 kilometer) roundtrip to the Canadian city of Winnipeg.
It's seven hours each way, the tedium punctuated only by card games, videos, and a buffet lunch stop in Fargo, North Dakota, but it's all worth it when these seniors whip out their calculators at the Canadian pharmacy and tot up what they have saved.
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