[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Things that make you go "hmmmm..." Canadian drugs NOT cheaper than American ones? Canadian drugs not actually being Canadian. Seems there is some sense in banning imports, for now. Hopefully, it won't have to be this way forever.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Drug safety PING!

[ETERNAL WARMING]

LOL The spin continues! Big Drug Company lobbying buying our politicians.

The drugs we order from the CanadianDrugstore.com are made in the USA..same brand, same ingredients, same packaging.

Nice try, spinmeisters, but we know better.

[Goldwater4ever]

The GOP is for free trade...expect when it comes to protecting drug companies.

[Torie]

Until there is some evidence that imported drugs are harming the health of Americans in considerable numbers, the case is still the null set to ban the imports. Perhaps the "solution" is to have imported drugs pass some "provenance" test. An outright ban is simply a scheme to preserve the two tier pricing system, and subsidize Japan, Canada and Western Europe for the fruits of American drug research, paid for by Americans who fork over the higher tier price. This disgusting and nauseating system cannot and should not stand.

[A. Pole]

Seems there is some sense in banning imports, for now.

What about banning imported vegetables?

[Nov3]

Seems there is some sense in banning imports, for now.

Keep the FDA out of this. It is called the free market. Freepers love it everywhere but here for some odd reason.

[steve86]

Speaking of drugs made in third-world countries...They are either minimally effective or outright counterfeits with no active ingredients.

That is a flat-out, bold-faced lie, and the kind of tactic I would expect to find on DU.

So, all the drugs my relatives in the third world take are minimally effective or counterfeits? Bull Shit. Then why aren't the people dead who have diabetes or hypertension? I guess the drugs are effective enough.

I have taken two drugs manufactured in third-world countries, purchased by mail order. Both are the kinds of drugs that have an immediate, obvious effect if they are working. They WORK, and at a fifth the cost of a U.S. brand-name drug.

BTW, my wife was manufactured in a third-world country as well, and I am plenty happy with her.

[GVnana]

Health Canada refuses to vouch for the quality of drugs that flow through Canada to the U.S.

Figures. Who supplies the pharmaceuticals in Mexico? You can buy them there in any store without a prescription.

[BlazingArizona]

Kerri Houston is Vice President of Policy for Frontiers of Freedom and Executive Director of its Project for the American Healthcare Century.

== pharma industry shill. To summmarize the argument: Americans are too stupid to make choices in an open worldwide market for drugs; therefore, we have no option but to bend over and accept monopoly-administered fixed pricing.

To this I reply: they sent our jobs to India. Why don't consumers have the same right to shop worldwide?

[John Locke]

"Safe Importation" is an oxymoron.

Let's see. I've drunk beer imported from Mexico. From India. From the Phillipines. From Sri Lanka. From Nigeria - ("Star Beer" - very dry, very good)

And I'm not dead yet.

Are we really supposed to believe that these countries can make safe beer but not safe aspirin? Give me a break.

Of course, I don't drink French beer. And maybe I should avoid Canadian.

[balk]

Explains why Diclectin (pregnancy nausea reliever) is still unavailable in America - a great prescription drug made in Quebec. Predictably, this article is full of hot air.

[eternity]

To comment on pharmaceutical drugs. The drug industry lobby each member on Congress more than any other industry. Believe me some of these drugs are not needed to maintain health. Take hypertension medication. The old rule of thumb was that your systolic (top number) was 100 + your age. So if you are 50 years old anything 150 or below was acceptable. Now with documents supplied by drug companies they say the top number must be no higher than 120. If somebody can find me trials not sponsored by these crooks, let me know. I will stick by the old rule.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Drug counterfeiting is very big business internationally. If counterfeiters can sell milk sugar pills as Aids treatment drugs, well.......think of the money.

Regards,

[PGalt]

Interesting FReeper comments bump!

[Charlespg]

"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

[BobS]

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.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

And Hmmmmmmm.
Canada to the US "caveat emptor" even if it's medicine for you heart disease that may just be candy.

With friends like these...

[djreece]

We have a serious problem with overregulation in our country that is contributing to the booming demand. But I do have to say that the one time I bought from a "Canadian" pharmacy, I was quite surprised that what I received actually came from Australia. I'm just relieved that it was at least first world and effective.

The GOP needs to get real though. They tell us that it is fine to bring in much of our food from countries where we would take great care as tourists in what we eat, and that it is perfectly fine to send our personal financial information off to countries like India. They just make themselves look bought and paid for by corporate interests.