Bureaucracies must justify their existence.I remember large ads in the newspaper, when l lived in Houston around 2000, stating scarily that cut-price drugs from Canada hadn't gone through the rigorous certification process required in the USA - while of course saying nothing about the rigorous certification process drugs go through in Canada.
I thought the implication that Canada was a sort of Wild West of unapproved, dangerous drug manufacture rather amusing. Personally, I'd feel marginally safer getting that sort of thing in Canada than I would in the States.
He-who-shall-not-be-named has advocated streamlining drug
approvals here to deal with the pandemic. Let's hope that it's
done soon & well.