[al_again]

I hear what you are saying Wally. As the US consumer is bearing the entire cost of R&D, the re-importation is a way to start correcting this imbalance. As the price points in the US drop (they must due to competitive presure of Canadian imports), the drug companies will reach a point where they 'leave it'.

This will force the socialist countries to increase the price which will in turn raise the US price point. Thus, equilibrium will be achieved.

I can understand the drug companies opposition. Mind you, I don't care either :)

[staytrue]

In the old days of telecom, it was a lot cheaper to call europe from the US than the other way round. This was because the Euro telephone cos. were govt. owned monopolies and they liked to stick to people calling the US to pay for inflated euro govt.

Then someone thought up the idea of ring back, where to save money on a europe to US call, you would call a US designated number, ring it once, hang up and a call would then "ring back" from the US to your phone in Europe with a US dial tone, you could then place your call "from Europe" while paying US rates.

This is sort of what happens in drug reimportation.

The European govt. telephone monopolies eventually went away and I hope the same will happen with the drug companies.