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To: surroundedbyblue

Bugs in sterile drugs? Behind the shortage of critical meds
http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/29/10541346-bugs-in-sterile-drugs-behind-the-shortage-of-critical-meds


Current Drug Shortages
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/DrugShortages/ucm050792.htm
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/10/04/140958404/shortages-lead-doctors-to-ration-critical-drugs


In addition the laws against reimportation and similar mean that Americans pay for the development of every advanced technology.  We pay $20 for a pill that's $2 in Canada.  The $2 covers reproduction cost, but the $20 covers development, clinical trials, testing and the risk of failure.  We eat it all and the rest of the world gets full benefit of that development expense for free.  This must stop.  Dropping these special legal protections will instantly end this game.  Yes, there will be some therapies that won't be developed becasue other governments will refuse to bear their ratable share of the costs.  That's how the market works -- if there's no market for the drug, device or procedure in a nation at its "all-in" cost then it doesn't happen, no matter how "wonderful" it might be.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker&page=3



89 posted on 02/29/2012 3:41:24 PM PST by preacher (Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
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Thanks for the links and posting the info that the US subsidizes medical R & D for the world. Talk about wealth distribution!


121 posted on 03/01/2012 5:24:40 AM PST by khelus
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