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Drug Companies Stop You From Getting Inexpensive Foreign Drugs

No doubt with the help of overwhelming lobbying from the mega-drug company cartel, the U.S. Senate voted earlier this week to end a drive that would've allowed consumer to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.

The Senate attempted to save face, and have it both ways, by passing two pieces of legislation. After passing one that required the administration to certify the safety and efficacy of drugs imported to the United States from foreign countries -- a task federal officials say they cannot do -- the Senate approved another measure authorizing imported drugs made in Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Europe.

To add insult to injury, the Senate passed the comprehensive drug bill (93-1) that not only killed drug imports but gave the FDA more authority to police drug safety, a problem the agency has had for some time. Of course, the bill would fund such oversight by over-relying once again on the help of their "client base," the mega-drug companies, according to Public Citizen's Dr. Sidney Wolfe.

Folks, the amount of money the drug company cartel spends on lobbying to protect themselves from "threats" to their continuous cash flow, including the preservation and extension of exclusive drug patents, is, in a word, obscene.

There's no reason at all for you to risk your health or life on a flawed drug-based paradigm that does nothing more than keep the coffers of multi-national drug companies flush with cash. The better, more effective path is to find safer, healthier solutions that help your body heal without the need for potentially toxic drugs and needless procedures.

MSNBC May 7, 2007

Detroit Free Press May 8, 2007

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 +9 Points           
 
Author of the Article
BY Russ Bianchi   
  
[ Joined on 09/06 ]
[ Posted on May 10, 2007 ]
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I agree, DO NOT PURCHASE the high priced domestic pharma brands, as well as proven UNSAFE and HARMFUL drugs if at all possible. 

Boycott American Drug Store's also (aka WALGREEN'S) which Dr. Mercola previously outed as a total RIP-OFF in the HIGHEST prescription costs to consumers!

This latest Big Pharma scam, that was lobbied, bought/paid for, via and through your Uncle Sam, seems to be weekly these days, if not DAILY.

This is NOT about "safety" (a spin/diversion tactic), because if that were the case, the same FDA/USDA would not have been caught red-handed allowing harmful/economically adulterated/poisoned ingredients in from the slave labor state (and non existent human rights) China, into the US Food Chain to kill your pets, & maybe you.

Remember, on a like safety subject, active BSE (Mad Cow) spongiform was found in beef gelatin in the human food chain, used for the number one gelatin dessert brand/pudding on supermarket shelves in America.  FDA planned to pull all of it off shelves in a massive recall.  The Tobacco giant owning the brand successfully behind closed doors stopped that.

This is about GREED and OLOGOPOLISTIC motives.

Last time I checked, Big Pharma was not protected, or had an exemption under the Sherman Anti Trust Act, but no doubt they are lobbying for that also, as we write this.

Like FDA was flooded with complaint letters on their feeble attempts to gut the Dietary Supplement Act, it would appear, once again, fellow Mercolians, you need to make the phones ring off the hook at your CROOKED Congresspersons' and US Senators' offices, on this legislation they passed.  If there is one thing any politician WILL do, it's preserve their own chances of staying in office, that's the only way to get this repealed.

Let the DC Congressional switchboards and servers be FLOODED!!!

The squeaky wheel gets the grease!!
 

 +6 Points           
 
Author of the Article
BY Witch Doctor   
  
[ Joined on 09/06 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on May 10, 2007 ]
 
foxtroter - never thought of that or heard it said before.  Medical insurance, and Bush'/Congress' big giveaway to America's most affluent class justr made it worse.  Cheaper drugs paid for by you and me.  If med insurance was catastrophic only, like high deductible, people would see what these drugs cost, would look for alternatives.  Insurance should be for major outlays, and catastrophic would still cover very expensive med needs.  Socialized would make it worse, guaranteeing more drug use.  It would be taxpayer-funded subsidies to big Pharma, with drugged up crippled taxpayers.

 +3 Points           
 
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BY Dr. David Spitz   
  
[ Joined on 12/06 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on May 13, 2007 ]
 
Russ---I heard they take in 9 BILLION per year on oxycontin alone...so 600 million is nothing.

            
 
Author of the Article
BY Russ Bianchi   
  
[ Joined on 09/06 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on May 13, 2007 ]
 
MERCK just sold off their generics division THIS MORNING, 5/13/07, FOR 6+ BILLION $$$$, in the USA, to some domestic SUCKERS, with HUGE liability coming down the pike, on safety and liability issues. 

Do not be so sure $600 million in the case listed is not a deterrent to further criminal activity, but we shall indeed SEE, Doc DS...

The YEAR IS YOUNG....

Uncle Russ

            
 
Author of the Article
BY Russ Bianchi   
  
[ Joined on 09/06 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on May 11, 2007 ]
 
The NY Times reported yesterday, 5/10/07, and today, 5/11/07, a $600 million dollar CRIMINAL GUILTY PLEA from one of the mega pharmaceutical companies, on painkillers that had false data submitted to FDA, to get approval, along with dangerous and addictive substances undeclared in the formulation of the tablets! 

If this company settled for $600 million, what does that say about how many BILLIONS they must have raked in on this health harmful SCAM BRAND?

Then, also yesterday, another mega pharmaceutical company was also fined millions of dollars (by the FDA & FTC) on safety issues, of an approved brand in the marketplace, as well as many false claims. 

I tell you, Enron is NOTHING by comparison to the widespread CRIMINALITY in Big Pharma, and the daily revelations of premeditated FRAUD.

I remember, several years ago, being told about caramel like square/cubed, and individually wrapped, chew brand, from one of these mega pharmaceutical companies, targeting supplementation of calcium for women with bone density problems.

That pharma company decided after only a year in a test market place to sell the brand off to another mega pharmaceutical company (this was/is VERY expensive CANDY, posing as helping women and is still on the market). Very little R&D was done to prove whether or not the brand really worked. 

Guess What? 

The first mega pharmaceutical company KNOWINGLY hoisted the brand off onto the second mega pharmaceutical company, even though the first company KNEW the calcium was not at all absorbable and the product remains a COMPLETE FRAUD!  

Yet the brand is still on drug store shelves and check out counters nationally, with a TV campaign touting it.  

Women, if you are ACTIVE, do no be fooled by this snake oil brand name, or purchase it.

 
 +3 Points           
 
Author of the Article
BY foxtroter