[virgil]

Right now the drug regulations are so restrictive that they make it difficult to import drugs into this country. They'll just move pharmaceutical operations to Mexico or Indonesia or India or China. Then one day the government will cry "emergency!" So, then, the FDA will curtail regulations to make it easier to import drugs from who knows where, by who knows who, with who knows what. Or they can just replace the highly skilled American workforce in the industry right now with amnestied Mexicans. That should qualify the pharma industry for a regulatory break in the eyes of the gov't.

[NittanyLion]

My prediction is that China will close the pharmaceutical gap with the US more quickly than they otherwise might, and it wouldn't surprise me if they overtake us at some point.

No one can say for certain that this wouldn't happen in the absence of this bill, but these events will most certainly damage US companies' ability to compete.