On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:23:53 -0800, "Hawke"
wrote:
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They had one where drugs were being
supplied from Europe and it cost about 200.00 a year to keep someone alive
who had AIDS. The same medication in the US was 10,000. There is something
horribly wrong when you see that kind of a difference in costs of
medication.
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It is exactly these types of examples that show "free trade" to
be a lie for the people.

Every effort is made to prevent the shipment of cheap drugs to
the higher priced areas, even when these were made in the same
factory.

Drugs are not unique, and considerable efforts are made to
prevent imports of lower cost goods, for example the repeated
attempts to suppress the "gray market" in consumer electronics
and optics/cameras. This goes so far that the manufacturers now
add "code" to their consumer electronic products to prevent
operation or playback of a device or recording in the "wrong"
market.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).