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Danger: The Active Ingredient in Imported Drugs
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| January 28, 2005
| Kerri Houston
Posted on 01/28/2005 8:00:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: A. Pole
Now to the question of toilet paper, or what passes for toilet paper throughout most of Europe ~ shoprags in the US ~ the real question is DO THEY USE IT?
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posted on
01/29/2005 6:02:12 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
Well I did about ten minutes ago.
And I washed my hands too!
To: kingsurfer
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posted on
01/29/2005 6:06:28 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
Now to the question of toilet paper, or what passes for toilet paper throughout most of Europe ~ shoprags in the US ~ the real question is DO THEY USE IT? Yes, and even better - in number of European countries they clean their bottom with the warm water and soap - much more hygienic than paper. :) (Search Google for "bidet")
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posted on
01/29/2005 6:11:50 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(Hash Bimbo: "Low wage is good for you!")
To: A. Pole
Hey, I've been there. That's all theory with those guys. It's only been in recent years they bothered changing their undershorts in Deutschland more than 1 a month.
But we were discussing the third-world where the European mobsters have the counterfeit drugs manufactured.
I've heard that conditions aren't as good there.
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posted on
01/29/2005 6:14:12 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Nov3
What element of free trade is involved when a socialistic country's price fixing is imported into our country?
For a supposedly conservative group I can't understand the almost universally favorable view of drug "re-importation" on this board.
Whatever we do to control drug pricing will, quite simply, result eventually in fewer new drugs coming to market. As a result, dammit, people will die!
I'm no apologist for drug companies, just someone who has benefited significantly from a modern drug therapy.
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posted on
01/29/2005 6:19:03 AM PST
by
Bill S
To: ETERNAL WARMING
Nice try, spinmeisters, but we know better. I borrowed your line to bump the thread.
To: Hank Rearden
I agree with your perception. However, Bush taking on Social Security, tort reform, and even maybe school choice - the jury is still out! Let's hope he can deliver!
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posted on
01/29/2005 7:40:16 AM PST
by
al_again
To: muawiyah
We just had this problem involving imported onions taken straight from the fields womewhere they don't use portapotties. Buncha' people were killed. Why should we accept such conditions in the manufacturing of drugs? A large percentage of the groceries we buy come from overseas. Over the years, I have grown to trust the Fry's Marketplace and Weber's IGA buyers' judgement when they select apples from Chile and cilantro from Mexico. If Fry's or IGA poisoned me, I would go shop elsewhere. Unlike in the prescription business, I have a choice.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Safe Importation" is an oxymoron. It is impossible to achieve, and any politician claiming that importation can be safe knowingly speaks an untruth. The HHS report now gives them little room to wiggle and even fewer places to hide.
Released in mid-December, the report provides irrefutable evidence that banning what consumers believe are "Canadian" drugs protects Americans from harm. The report also dispels another vote-garnering argument proffered by pro-importation politicians by casting doubt that Canadian drugs are cheaper.
In analyzing the effects of legalizing importation from non-U.S. sources, a critical finding of the study echoes concerns of importation opponents that drugs purchased from "Canada" are often not, in fact, Canadian.
As many as 70% of Internet websites that have the appearance of being in Canada, aren't. They are not peddling U.S.-made drugs returned from Canada. Their drugs are produced in unsafe, unsanitary facilities in places such as India, the Dominican Republic and Pakistan. They are either minimally effective or outright counterfeits with no active ingredients. "
what a bunch of BS,just more pandering to fat cat drug companies
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posted on
01/29/2005 8:05:02 AM PST
by
Charlespg
(Civilization and freedom are only worthy of those who defend or support defending It)
To: Bill S
What element of free trade is involved when a socialistic country's price fixing is imported into our country? For a supposedly conservative group I can't understand the almost universally favorable view of drug "re-importation" on this board. The term 're-importation' is just a smokescreen. It applies only to American-made drugs sold to other countries at a lower price than in the US. What we're actually for is the right to buy on the worldwide market.
The low prices we pay for all that stuff at Wal-Mart are set on the worldwide market, including the American-made goods sold there. Our jobs are shopped on the worldwide market, meaning that we have to compete against Indians and Chinese. Why should drug manufacturers enjoy special socialist price-fixing privileges not available to the rest of us?
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You can get anything you want on the internet. Maybe from a different country, but made by the same 9 or 10 pharmaceutical companies. If you know what you need and don't want to sit around with a bunch of sickos in a waiting room. I caught the flu last year in a waiting room.
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posted on
01/29/2005 8:24:44 AM PST
by
BobS
To: muawiyah
We just had this problem involving imported onions taken straight from the fields womewhere they don't use portapotties. Buncha' people were killed. Aye, I understand the similarities. Unsanitary growing conditions vs. factories which don't use GMP.
OTOH, a little pill could contain (according to naked eye inspection, which is all most end-stage consumers have access to) almost anything. You can look at a green pepper and tell someone isn't trying to fake you out with a Prickly Pear cactus.
Full Disclosure: Once in Minneapolis I came across a news story where a woman claimed she came across a black widow spider in her bunch of discount-store grapes imported from Argentina. And since black widows often hang out in old-fashioned outdoor privies it kinda sorta has relevance.
;-)
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posted on
01/29/2005 8:25:00 AM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: kingsurfer
The issue is whether these Euro drug companies themselves have a two tier pricing system vis a vis the US.
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posted on
01/29/2005 9:52:16 AM PST
by
Torie
To: BlazingArizona
I was referring specificlly to American-made drugs sold to other countries at a lower price than in the US. This is only because these socialist countries will accept no other way and threaten our drug companies patents if they wont sell at the fixed price.
I reiterate, if drug companies prices are artificially forced down, fewer new drugs will come to market and people will die!
If you're comfortable with that that's your problem. I'm not.
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posted on
01/29/2005 9:58:43 AM PST
by
Bill S
To: Bill S
What element of free trade is involved when a socialistic country's price fixing is imported into our country? You mean the USA is SOCIALIST. Hey bud the price-fixing takes place here! Get your head on straight. The drug companies willingly sell these drugs to Canada/Mexico etc at that price and MAKE money doing it. If they didn't they wouldn't do it. Sheeesh get a clue!!! The socialist market is here. The drug companies are subsidized through our taxes (Medicaid, Senior plan etc) and the insurance companies and this results in outrageous prices for those of us who pay DIRECT. I pay for a large part of my own drugs and would have to pay the outrageous inflated American prices if it wasn't for importation. The cash price on these drugs is not real and is a direct result of the insurance companies and government. Now go suck up the Drug industry PR generated line that is completely socialist.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:36:16 AM PST
by
Nov3
("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
To: al_again
I certainly hope so. The drug companies will stop this "competition" in "their" marketplace. Anyone who can have Viagra/Levitra/Cialis/Vioxx/Bextra/Celebrex/Prosac/Zoloft/Zocor/etc. commercials on 24/7/365 can buy all the senators and brainwash all the freepers etc they want.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:40:52 AM PST
by
Nov3
("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
To: Nov3
Of course they make money. It's called marginal profit. The rest of your comments cannot be dignified with an answer.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:41:02 AM PST
by
Bill S
To: Bill S
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:41:56 AM PST
by
Nov3
("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
To: Bill S
Of course they make money. It's called marginal profit. The rest of your comments cannot be dignified with an answer.Because they expose the true socialist in this conversation - YOU
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:43:13 AM PST
by
Nov3
("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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