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The
\n thing we don’t get about cheaper drugs from Canada is how come they’re
\n so much cheaper? If Canadian pharmacies are selling US manufactured
\n drugs for less than half of what they cost in the US, it means that they
\n are selling them in the US for more than twice as much as they need to
\n to make a decent profit.\n <\/p>\n
Obviously, they can get away with this because they, through their lobbyists,
\n have convinced the Congress and the FDA that they need these obscene
\n profit megamargins
\n to support research, development, clinical trials, etc. In reality
\n this is largely smoke and mirrors, and the US market has long been a
\n gold mine for this multinational industry.<\/p>\n
Pharma, as the pharmaceutical industry
\n lobbyists are known, are considered the creme de la creme of American
\n lobbyists, with sophistication,continental flair, unlimited funds and
\n connections
\n that reach high
\n in circles of power private and public around the world, Without their
\n efforts our drug prices would be much closer to the Canadians’.<\/p>\n
So how do those politicians (largely Democrats) get away with letting
\n their constituents legally import American drugs from Canada and circumvent
\n one of the slickest scams perpetrated on the American public in the past
\n century, by some of their
\n biggest
\n contributors
\n and corporate
\n sponsors? Will there be repercussions in future reelection campaigns? These
\n powerful corporations are not going to walk away from billions of dollars
\n of annual windfall profits just because of some election year mania for
\n economic fair play….<\/p>\n
\n We may be looking at a nationwide insurrection. Currently, one to two
\n million Americans are defying federal law by using the Internet to
\n purchase drugs from Canadian pharmacies. And, according to one Kaiser
\n Family Foundation
\n and Harvard University School of Public Health poll, approximately
\n 80 percent of Americans support importing RX drugs from Canada. Who
\n can
\n blame them? In 2002, Americans paid 67 percent more than Canadians
\n for patented drug products, and medicines will cost US consumers an
\n estimated
\n $210 billion in 2004. The groundswell is so strong that Health and
\n Human Services Secretary Tommy Thomson conceded in May that Congress
\n will inevitably
\n have to yield.<\/p>\nMuch of the blame for the lack of action at the federal level can be
\n pinned on Pharma, the pharmaceutical lobby, which values protecting
\n profits above lives,
\n and which is playing hard-ball in hopes of beating back an importation law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\narticle from Znet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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