When Claritin was prescription and around $80 a month here I used to pick
it up over the counter in Canada when I visited for about 1/10th the
price. Same drug. Dosage was a little different; I think I had to take
2 instead of one ::shrug::
It's actually a bit insulting to hear the US say Canadian drugs aren't
safe, as though they were being made over a wood stove ot something :)
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:06:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Canadian Prescription Drug Question
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Intesting study a while ago that looked at Canadian Internet
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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