"He's dead on tonight.
Yes, he is.
Thank God!
blah blah blah we're talking about drugs from Canada.
Okay man, I don't have first-hand knowledge (seriously), but from what I hear, the drugs from Canada are just FINE..... ;)
Now is the time to recall that just this month a couple drugs have been pulled off the marked due to side effects...
The problem is that Canada imports drugs from other countries and there are not the same quality control in those countries. Those countries who want to deal with the US have to raise their standards to meet ours. Not too many out there willing to pay the price for safety. They don't have the same laws as we do.
"Okay man, I don't have first-hand knowledge (seriously), but from what I hear, the drugs from Canada are just FINE..... ;)"
I realize I'm reading this several hours after you posted, but I have to respond to this.
It really has nothing to do with the safeness of the drug. The problem is that we subsidize R & D for probably 90% of the world.
Allowing the import of our own discounted drugs from Canada will suck billions of dollars out of research.
The people who want to buy from Canada are the same shits who will be bitching and moaning when they come down with some new disease in 20 years ago and there is no drug to treat it.
Before the 2000 Minnesota Senate Election, bipolar certifiable maniac Mark Dayton and his DFL dwarves organized despicable media events that involved busing confused senior citizens up to Canada to buy cut rate vital medicine that the EVIL Rod Gramms was denying them.
Well, one of the goofy geezers got the wrong dosage from a Thunder Bay pharmacist, and damn near died. I mean, he needed resucitation almost immediately off Dayton's bus.
One peep from the local or national press? Hell no.
That was buried by the local Communist press (they've expunged it from their Googlable archives) , and I will never forgive Mark Dayton or the Star Tribune or the Democrats or the Canadian thieves for that poor man's exploitation.
Bush should have known about that story tonight, he should have known the man's name, and I BLAME MYSELF for not pushing that issue up the GOP funnel to the President's resource bank. Because THAT is the kind of REAL SCARY anecdote the seniors need to know.
And, it wasn't the pharmicists fault. It was a doctor in Minnesota who wrote an incorrect prescription under duress from the DFL nazis who need old man Joe to get up there for their photo op. The poor Canadian pharmacist had this busload of geezers and reporters and cameras show up, and he couldn't do the due dilligence that pharmacists DO with physicians to ensure safety.
I wish W knew this story.