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To: BlazingArizona
I guess we should nuke Wal-Mart for selling certain drugs even cheaper than the Canadians, then. Surely this will cause our pharma manufacturers to immediately stop doing R & D.

I guess if you understood the difference between a government imposing price controls on an industry versus a retailer offering $4.00 generic drugs as a loss leader and public relations coup, in one state, you'd be able to answer the question without my help.

Do you understand that the generic industry is very profitable for pharmacies but offer very low margins for manufacturers? When was the last time you saw a new drug developed and commercialized by a generic manufacturer?

24 posted on 09/23/2006 9:34:27 PM PDT by Mase
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To: Mase
I guess if you understood the difference between a government imposing price controls on an industry versus a retailer offering $4.00 generic drugs as a loss leader and public relations coup, in one state, you'd be able to answer the question without my help.

I guess if you had any greater inkling of how free markets worked than a Cuban shoe factory manager, you wouldn't be such a big fan of having the federosaurus prevent us from buying drugs at open-market prices in countries where NO PRICE CONTROLS EVER EXISTED, such as Switzerland. And whether a price-controlled country like Canada wants to sell to Americans is totally its own business. It represents a market large enough that American manufacturers, who are totally free to sell or not sell to Canadians as they wish, choose to sell products there.

All we want is for American consumers to be as free to buy globally as American drug manufacturers are to sell globally.

26 posted on 09/23/2006 10:06:00 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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