Author
|
Topic: un-American activities
|
GenoTex Prowler Junkie Posts: 8492 From: Oakfield, WI, USA Registered: MAR 2002
|
posted 01-16-2006 04:59 AM
ISN'T THIS IRONIC? THINK ABOUT THIS!
A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market. A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market. A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market. We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh. When I need to speak to someone about my computer, I talk to somebody in India. We can purchase almost anything we want from 20 different countries BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy.
That's called un-American! And you think the pharmaceutical companies don't have a powerful lobby? Think again!
(thx AC)
|
butchcee Prowler Junkie Posts: 7476 From: Lake Ariel, Pa. Registered: SEP 2000
|
posted 01-16-2006 07:32 AM
yeah--thnx AC
|
ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 From: Mesa, Az Registered: JUL 2000
|
posted 01-16-2006 08:16 AM
Its the end of the world,,I tell ya,,,,the end of the world
|
pumpkin Prowler Junkie Posts: 7907 From: Las Cruces, NM, USA Registered: DEC 2001
|
posted 01-16-2006 09:24 AM
|
YellowFever unregistered Posts: 7907 From: Las Cruces, NM, USA Registered: DEC 2001
|
posted 01-16-2006 10:36 AM
I don't know but, I think there is a big difference between something you have to inject or swallow being in me from a third world country or buying a printer made overseas.Drugs here typically take billions of dollars and years of government testing (I think 10 years is about average) before it even is allowed to hit the general market. Countries elsewhere don't have to do near that or they just wait till one of these develops it then just mimics it with a generic version.
|
Bcoffman Gray Ghost Prowler Junkie Posts: 2418 From: Marshall,Mo.65340 Registered: DEC 2002
|
posted 01-16-2006 01:37 PM
quote: Originally posted by YellowFever: I don't know but, I think there is a big difference between something you have to inject or swallow being in me from a third world country or buying a printer made overseas.Drugs here typically take billions of dollars and years of government testing (I think 10 years is about average) before it even is allowed to hit the general market. Countries elsewhere don't have to do near that or they just wait till one of these develops it then just mimics it with a generic version.
Point well made EXCEPT for one thing. The same pill that is made in the same factory is priced for 1/10th the money in Canada as it is in the US. Charge the same price in every country.
|
YellowFever unregistered Posts: 2418 From: Marshall,Mo.65340 Registered: DEC 2002
|
posted 01-16-2006 02:11 PM
quote: Originally posted by Bcoffman Gray Ghost: Point well made EXCEPT for one thing. The same pill that is made in the same factory is priced for 1/10th the money in Canada as it is in the US. Charge the same price in every country.
I think, and I stand to be corrected here, is that alot of that has to do with our great legal system and the ability to sue for bazillions of dollars here. When folks sue big companies for billions, who ultimately pays for that tab? The consumer.
|
ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 From: Cincinnati, OH Registered: JUL 2000
|
posted 01-16-2006 03:49 PM
Costco sells them for about 10 % of the other pharmacies, supposedly. I have not checked that out. So maybe it is just not the big manufacturers but it is also the pharmacies.
|
Fat Pat Prowler Junkie Posts: 1242 From: Blue Springs, Missouri, USA Registered: DEC 2004
|
posted 01-16-2006 08:38 PM
Yeah....thanks AC
|
GenoTex Prowler Junkie Posts: 8492 From: Oakfield, WI, USA Registered: MAR 2002
|
posted 01-16-2006 09:04 PM
quote: Originally posted by pumpkin:
AC mailed it to me (us) Norm...... thus the 'thanks'
|
toys Prowler Junkie Posts: 3818 From: kensington Conn, USA Registered: DEC 2003
|
posted 01-17-2006 06:31 AM
One of my Neighbors saves close to $290.00 a month by getting his same exact USA made Meds from Canada.There Made here shipped out of the USA and there cheaper how & why does that work?????????. Toys
|
meancat Prowler Junkie Posts: 3635 From: MODDERSVILLE, MICHIGAN Registered: AUG 2002
|
posted 01-17-2006 11:49 AM
I buy all my drug from Canada.Have for 5 year's save's me about $300.00 a month.(that's how I can afford a nice car)------------------
This message has been edited by meancat on 01-17-2006 at 11:50 AM
|