Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Frank
From : Frank Reid
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 09:21 am

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Frank to Frank Reid on Sun Sep 18 2005 00:18:00

 >    Yes you are right. The move to open US markets to prescription drugs from
 >   Canada speaks volumes. The fact that we should even have to consider such
 >   a thing tells us where we are. I don't know what steps we can take in this
 >   area, too much money is being thrown at politics to STOP change.

Pharmaceutical companies make profit, and they're going to continue to make
profit by developing other means, if necessary.  If 50% of their net profit
results from U.S. drug sales, and half that market goes away because the U.S.
starts buying foreign-market intended drugs, they will immediately increase
costs for foreign-market intended drugs.

Unless it's your desire either that the government itself takes over the
pharmaceutical manufacturing industry *or* that the industry becomes socially
regulated in price, then avoiding U.S. costs by buying the same products
overseas will *not* solve the problem.

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