Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Frank Reid
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 12:53 pm

-=> Frank Reid wrote to Frank <=-

 FR>   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 FR>   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.

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

I believe (at least in the case of Canada) that they have made the best deals
they can. It's OUR gov that has been the major factor in NOT helping out where
it could, in regards to pricing and purchasing drugs.


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

They could split the difference and act as purchasing agent and negotiate the
lowest prices they could. Why not use the mass buying power and get cost
cutting prices for people that must have them. Of course the rest of us
wouldn't mind lower drug costs either.

Either the gov steps in and supports the people or they stand back and support
the drug companies.



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