pharmacies and compared them to US pharmacies. On the average the
Canadian places came out considerably more safe than the US places.
larry
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:27:39 -0500, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually the drug companies are selling to Canada at steep discounts, otherwise
> the Canadian Pharmacies will not buy them. Canada tells the Drug companies what
> they will pay for the drugs, and that is not necessarily a subsidy.
>
> They sell the same drugs in the US at greatly inflated prices, and those who are
> successful buy them in Canada at the "regular" prices.
>
> In order to protect the domestic (US) profit margins, the Republican Government
> has declared it is illegal to import these drugs from Canada. At the same
> time, under the Medicare reform Act, the US government is prohibited from
> negotiating reduced prices from the drug companies (many of which are not in the
> US). Further the drug companies are threatening the Canadian Pharmacies that
> they will cut off their supplies if they continue to export drugs to the US at
> normal prices, as opposed to the inflated US prices. The prohibition is couched
> in propaganda suggesting that the drugs purchased in Canadian Pharmacies are
> counterfeit, or otherwise not reliable. Of course this is a Republican Lie (as
> usual)
>
> My remarks do not apply to the drug and pharmaceutical spam that is flooding
> email touting drugs in China and Brazil, etc. Those are most always just a
> scam.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick McClure
>
> OK, so if I understand this correctly, Drug companies in the US sell drugs
> to Canada at their normal rates, then Canada subsidizes the drugs, brings
> the cost down, and the then US Pharmacies buy the drugs back.
>
> Am I understanding this correctly? Is that what some people are proposing we
> do?
>
> If this is what we are suggesting, wouldn't we completely destroy the
> Canadian economy eventually? US taxpayers using Canadian Tax payers dollars
> to purchase drugs originally made in the US.
>
>
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