[Myrddin]

You won't have to worry about whether drugs are affordable. You'll be able to buy all the stuff that has been developed to date at affordable prices. There just won't be anything new. If what's on the shelf won't fix your problem, you'll die anyway. There won't be an alternative available at any price. Drug companies have lots of special programs for hardship cases that really need their products, but can't afford them. It's good PR. I would rather see prices that encourage R&D with internal "charity" efforts directed at good PR to the alternative of no R&D because it is not a paying proposition.

The Dems will ration health care. They will also kill the profit motive for R&D. You'll get a ration of the existing drugs. There won't be anything new. R&D is the engine that converts "hope" into reality.

[calex59]

I notice you didn't answer my questions but simply went into a monologue about how bad it is to buy drugs in Canada. Now, once again: How are seniors supposed to buy drugs if they can't get part D and they can't buy them in Canada? Not all seniors are able to get health insurance with prescription coverage.

Tell me, just how would you handle this if you were someone, senior or not, who had to have life saving drugs but couldn't get them in the US because of the cost? Would you buy them where they are cheaper or would you stand on principle and say, "Oh, no, I am not going to buy them in Canada, I will just go ahead and die so the drug companies will be able to do R&D! Like hell you would, you would do what everyone else who can't afford them here is doing, buy them in Canada!

[goat granny]

US citizens should not be paying 10dollars a pill for anything. Many medications are duplicate of medications already on the market. Just change one ingredient and you have a new medication. Importing meds also make generics at wal-mart 10 dollars for a 3 month supply. I don't have prescription coverage, I will pay cash for my meds, not have my grandchildren buy them...I knew a lady that paid 1500 dollars a month for cancer medication. that is a crime. R & D be damned