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Sorry, I got up to my you-know-what in alligators, but I kept your post in mind. So, I have come back to it before I close. I took a screen shot of your reference and I’ll look it up tomorrow. I am very grateful for your effort to research for me, and I will definitely follow-up.

Many Thanks Again and Very Best Regards

I liked your post, and you make some good points. But I need to respectfully correct something for the benefit of other readers.

You actually, can buy this Albendazole in powder form, but it is still very expensive. Sorry, I don’t have the exact price.
Anyway, suppose you bought a few thousand pounds of the powder, and you bought a machine to turn powder into pills. We all understand that in the most entrepreneurial country in the world, the task of turning powder into pills is not a very difficult job. However, the second you take your pills over to CVS or Walgreen to sell, the FDA will be knocking on your door with an arrest warrant and you will be spending as many years in prison as I will hosting these parasites. ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION1

Thank you for your post because it capsulizes the wider issue that is at the center of the political debate raging in this country.

I totally agree with you that the chit (as you put it) should be strung up by the balls. (PS: we’re bordering on being thrown off for language , here.)

But, I adamantly disagree with your solution of terminating the profit motive of the free market. Ok, you want to take away the profits of the distributors. So, will you then take away the profits of the insurance companies, and the profits of the drug manufacturers, and the profits of the hospitals and the research facilities, and the doctors.

No doubt, this all sounds pretty good to you. But, you are then left with only one solution, and that is to let the government own everything. But if the government owns everything, you end up back at square 1 again, because I believe it was exactly the government that allowed this company to perpetrate their atrocity on us. It was the government that allowed a critical monopoly to be established. It was the government that snuffed out the free market mechanism of COMPETITION that is very effective at balancing out gross inequities.

The government can do some very good things to promote a good, healthy competitive atmosphere. But the government can also do some very bad things that result in the worst kind of tyranny that you can ever imagine. And many politicians will be absolutely delighted to participate in that tyranny because they can become extremely rich.

To answer your question: The INVENTION RIGHTS ran out a long time ago. That’s why it is generic.
But, the DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS in America is a legal trick that the lawyers (and legislators) constructed to throw a very lucrative bone to this company.

I don’t know enough to understand exactly how they did this. But, I have been guessing that the FDA with their power, rules and regulations have some how made this possible. A post above came very close to touching on the explanation. Someone in the past administration may have tried to set-up a backdoor tax on the American people to subsidize poor countries in the world through the UN. Or alternatively, some legislators got a kick back. Or alternatively again, the distribution company just has some VERY GOOD LAWYERS to benefit the company exclusively.

Very well said. Thank You.

If anyone else reads this post, I will take this opportunity to encourage you to forward it to your Senator or Representative.

I am sending it to mine.

And I am very thankful for your interest and participation in this thread.

Look, I take your point. In fact I posted above somewhere that there are GOOD AND BAD people in these various institutions. In fact, I absolutely support a pharmaceutical research company that spends years and supports top researchers to discover drugs for exotic diseases. And they are absolutely justified in charging high prices to try to recover their costs. That is why most of these miracle drugs come out of America and not out of most other places in the world.

But the Albedazole is a different thing. It has been around for 45 years. It is a generic drug. It is sold for pennies everywhere outside of America. If it were only a few dollars in this country, it would be tolerable. But $219 dollars is not defensible.

Furthermore, the company, Amenda Pharma has been bought out by another company (google it), and that company is going around the country buying DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS for other generic drugs and blowing out the prices. Neither political party is doing anything concrete about it. You like capitalism? ME TOO!
All I ask is that we allow the bedrock of capitalism to be unleashed—FREE COMPETITION! I think you will agree.

You are a very sad person. You are so blinded by your personal prejudices that you cannot even understand that my motivations—whatever you think they are—are totally irrelevant. The facts are that poor people-never mind me—are being ripped off for a drug that they may seriously need. But I think your priorities are much different than that. People with very limited access to this drug are secondary to your MAIN interest of skewering posters and readers on this web site.

Get a Life.

I am so happy that you made that post, because “the rich America subsidizing the rest of the poor countries” scenario occurred to me very quickly. Now you have given me the proof.

But, here is the problem with that gambit:
1. Why do poor Americans (leave me out) have to subsidize Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, Australians—to say nothing about the rich potentates and all their friends and relatives all around the world.

2. In other words, if the UN wants to help the poor in the world, why don’t they pony up the subsidy and provide it directly to the needy? That’s about the only legitimate job they have to do.

I know of Steve Hilton, but I have not yet put him on my long recording list of FOX programs. Now I will do it and THANKS a LOT for the tip.

Here is something I want all people on this thread to know:

My Primary is Medicare. My secondary is Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS). BCBS pays for the medicine.

So, I asked my pharmacist, “Out of curiosity, if I cancel my BCBS, and I pay an extra$100 per month for Medicare Plus, how much would they pay for this drug.

With an apology, he said, “I can’t tell you that because you are not signed up for that program”

Can anybody out there tell me what THAT is supposed to mean?

My LV doctor is actually a specialist in exotic diseases, and he is from India. A very good guy. I will mention it to him.

Incidentally, he is outraged at our system, and told me directly that the company is “ripping off the American people.”

Yes, the 12 tablets were actually going to cost like $2300. Blue Cross picked up the lion’s share, and I took the $649.

Yes, in fact for $649 I can give my wife a small paid vacation to Vancouver or somewhere to buy the pills. I can’t go, because I could never deal with the toilet line on an airplane.

This article is meant for readers to consider the various types of “parasites” that infest our Health Care system in a similar way that the biological parasites are living off the food that I put down my throat.

I want to hasten to say: There are many good and bad people in each of the groups that I listed toward the end of the post. We need and have some worthy trial lawyers. We need and have good doctors. We need and have some good politicians. Same for drug manufactures and distributers as mentioned in a post above. But we must focus on getting the leaches and parasites OUT.

Please don’t get me wrong. I did not like paying the price, but I definitely can afford it. My whole purpose for relating the experience is in sympathy for people in this country that DO NOT have insurance, or that cannot get past their deductible. Certainly, you must have sympathy for those people as well. By the way, I just threw the line in at the end about “joining the poor” for literary effect.
I hope you will focus on the real message the I am trying to raise about the various “parasites” that plague our less financially privelged citizens—and NOT ON ME.

If I knew what I was coming back with, I certainlywould have bought them there.

Too bad! I hope it is not true. Senator Paul has added some very important dimensions to the debate issues (personal privacy, debt control, behavior of the Federal Reserve, abortion). In my opinion he has been thoughtful, inventive, and skillfully expressive. Whether he stays in the presidential race or not, I certainly hope that we hold onto his voice in DC. He is a powerful resource for new ideas.

I have a strong suspicion that you are exactly right on both counts.

The key phrase here is “...once he is elected...” We have already had a president that required on-the-job-training. But, even after 7 years he still hasn't learned how to do it. Trump could possibly be different. I hope so. However, as a voter, I want to see evidence of his DEEP understanding of the issues NOW, before I vote—not superficial arm waving.

OK. I understand the wall. That's one important issue. However, I see other candidates that are also well informed on that issue, and a whole lot of other crucial issues!

GET WITH IT DONALD IF YOU ARE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR JOB APPLICATION! Any good business man would require that of a new applicant. It's called preparation for the interview. AND, THIS IS THE INTERVIEW!