Posted on 09/06/2019 8:05:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This message brought to you by your good friends at Big Pharma lobbying board .... good grief.
I think the problem is trade agreements, some countries don’t allow USA companies to pass on development costs to foreign buyers. I have not researched this, but several people have told me that’s the issue.
Since most newer drugs are patented, are the drugs being sold in Canada actually made in the US and imported into
Canada?
There are too many drugs already.
Drugs developed and patented in the U.S. are just as expensive in Canada. The real problem is that Big Pharma has been allowed to evergreen drugs by Congress and the FDA, i.e. allowing them to make very minor changes to dosage levels, very minor formula adjustment; and, then allow Big Pharma to restart the patent clock.
Maybe drug companies could redirect some advertising $$ into research and I wouldn't have to see 12 drug ads every commercial break. Win-win.
Townhall can quit shilling for the pharma industry anytime now. They really can.
Street Corner Pharmacists Union agrees ???
Nah, it’s all they know. Support free trade for everything but pharma
The idea that we ger to fund all the pharma research and the rest of the world gets to enjoy the results at a much reduced cost is patently idiotic!
I’ll be honest, I have worked for big pharama in the past - they outsource just about everything they can to 3rd world hell-holes (people, jobs,manufacturing, factories etc) , and then claim in ‘too dangerous’ to allow US citizens to buy drugs from Canada of all places....yea right.
My type 1 diabetic son gets his insulin from Canada ... $30 a vial versus $280. Cannot afford Obamacare but it wouldn’t matter anyway because the deductible is $6,000.
Americans not only face a government-enforced monopoly for pharmacueticals when they go to buy drugs, as tax-payers they also get stripped when government itself buys drugs for its welfare programs
When I die, I want to be reborn as a Pharmaceutical executive.
The rest-of-the world using their monopsony power or threats not to respect patents basically force the pharmas to sell drugs at marginal costs. So the US consumer, directly or indirectly, is forced to pay for 100% of the fixed R&D costs.
So basically what they are saying is “you proles in the USA are required to pay for all the pharmacological innovations for the entire world”, “and when single payer is imposed on you we don’t want to hear your bitching”.
Like anyone else who loses their sweet pumped-up margin deal they’ll grumble and grouse about it. But I suspect they will go right on selling drugs under the new ground rules.
BigPharma propaganda. I should not have to pay $7/pill in the US for the same Japanese made drug that I can purchase from Canada for $1/pill.
I do not consent to being a slave to BigPharma.
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