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McCain Pushes Drug-Import Bill Sought by Obama Budget [McCain-Snowe-Dorgan-Obama]
Bloomberg | 2009-03-04 | Tom Randall

Posted on 03/04/2009 10:30:44 AM PST by rabscuttle385

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To: Mase

Your home page sounds good, but I was reading National Review when you were still in diapers, along with American Spectator and Conservative Chronicles, you talked about price controls not me. Your home page sounds better than your freeping. I buy my own prescriptions, do you? Or is it paid for by others? Your comment on God’s waiting room had me LMAO. My daddy didn’t have to turn me on to conservative principals. I have lived them..


41 posted on 03/04/2009 3:17:57 PM PST by goat granny
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To: pnh102
So what exactly is wrong with people going to Canada to buy cheap drugs and bring them back here? It is no different than crossing state lines to buy cheaper smokes or booze

Smokes and booze are not subsidized by a socialist program.

If we buy drugs there we are supporting their socialist medicine and denying our free market companies their R&D revenue.

42 posted on 03/04/2009 3:23:22 PM PST by what's up
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To: Age of Reason

agree with you 100%. didn’t the drug companies try to push mandatory vaccines for young girls a while ago with the backing of the federal government? They and the federal government are hand in hand in pushing stuff not needed. Including vaccines for babies to protect against hepatitis. How many babies are prone to hepatitis? Some people will believe anything they read in the paper.. Some people don’t realize the effects some of these drugs have on babies..babies without a fully formed immune system..As a nurse I have seen the horrible effects they have on children. It is a minority but if its your child, you don’t care if its only a minority that have side effects.


43 posted on 03/04/2009 3:37:27 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Age of Reason
Why do textbook publishers also sell books outside the country for much less than it costs to buy the same book here?

Don't know. I'm not in the book business

And I wonder how many other products sold overseas by U.S. companies, are being subsidized by American consumers?

Charging what the market will bear? It's a travesty I tell ya. Capitalism presents a lot of problems for some folks but I've yet to hear of anything better. You?

44 posted on 03/04/2009 3:45:02 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Age of Reason
I suspect that many, even most, new and "innovative" drugs are merely to replace a drug whose patent is about to expire.

Maybe you should look up the terms new and innovative.

Perhaps to even replace it with something less effective and more costly--or even more harmful.

Because companies that give their customers products offering lesser efficacy, or products that physically or mentally harm their customers, are more successful than those that don't? Did you learn that at the North Korea school of business?

I suspect most truly new drugs have their origins in academic laboratories.

I've spent a lot of time in a lot of labs but I've never been in an academic lab. You?

45 posted on 03/04/2009 3:54:02 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: goat granny
Then you should know that even Bill Buckley would see you as a socialist when you sing the praises of lower prices through socialistic means at the expense of profits (R&D be damned). If more people had your attitude we'd still be living like you were when you were just a little girl - running for the door with the half moon in the middle of the freezing night.

Your aversion to profits, and the progress they bring, is something your daddy forgot to teach you about on your journey to becoming a better conservative than those who understand the importance of the profit motive. Go back to your nap. You got yours.

46 posted on 03/04/2009 4:03:33 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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Bill Buckley was also for the legalization of pot.. He was not infallible...I love profit. Members of my family owe their own business. I was also a small business owner. Gee you don’t know what a real socialist is...Look to any democrat...Your so called insults are funny as hel!. Better realize that you look stupid and I don’t give you to power to insult me...LOL get a life. Ask daddy how you should live. The best thing my daddy taught me was to stand up to stupid. And not to be just a sheep that follows the flock. or propaganda. Also taught me to never point a gun at anyone unless I fully intend to pull the trigger and never pull the trigger unless I fully intend to kill. He was a great teacher by example...didn’t have to tell me how to live..Just because you are not too swift in intellect, he never killed anyone either. But was a cop.


47 posted on 03/04/2009 5:09:12 PM PST by goat granny
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