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1000 Reasons not to vote for GW
Mameotron:
OOh, I'm not letting this thread die until after the election!!
Today John Kerry unveiled his master plan to combat the cost of prescription drugs. He plans to import them from Canada.
Wow, I guess the American drug companies will just play along with that and continue to sell drugs to other countries at a much lower price. Certainly the price of drugs won't suddenly increase in Canada.
fredster:
I think I have answer to this low cost drug thing.
Drugs made in the US should be sold to other countries at a higher cost than we buy them for. That will stop all this importation nonsense.
fredster:
I think I like my idea better. After all, it doesn't matter to the socialized medicine people. It would level the playing field out wouldn't it?
I wonder why we spend so much. Maybe because everybody else isn't getting charged enough.
GGKoul:
--- Quote from: fredster on September 15, 2004, 12:42:03 pm ---I think I have answer to this low cost drug thing.
Drugs made in the US should be sold to other countries at a higher cost than we buy them for. That will stop all this importation nonsense.
--- End quote ---
You think this would be fact...
fredster:
Well, I don't understand how we let our companies like Eli Lilly send these drugs abroad and then turn around and send them back cheaper than they can sell it at the local pharmacy.
To me it's lunacy. If it costs $100 in the US and $75 in Canada, why? Because we are the target market? Why should the US foot the bill for all the research in the world? If there is a new drug, then why doesn't everybody pay $100?
It makes no sense to me why we let this happen in the first place. If we charged EVERYBODY the same for a while then we reduce price to the same level, then we all pay the same all the time and the field is level.
There must be some logical marketing reason for this, but I haven't been able to find it in my research. It makes no sense to me at all why Canada would be charged less than the US. (not picking on Canada, it could be any country including Mexico).
If we are such a world community then we should all chip in equally in this right?
What is the reason the US price is higher when we developed the drugs?