Mike in Mystic responds:

Why is that? Because our marvelous pharmaceutical companies think the U.S.
is
the font of drug research blessings for the entire world, that's why.

This opinon of yours is so misguided and inaccurate it literally made me
laugh out loud. The pharmaceutical companies are in those markets because
there is a potential to make a profit. Sure, the free market of the US
might bear some of the burden in this system, but if a large enough
population starts going to Canada and reduces profits in the US, all the
pharmaceutical companies are going to do is to either stop offering their
drugs in those markets (this is the most likely scenario), or attempt to
negotiate with those markets for different trade practices.

Actually, what they're trying to do is force the feds to control the market for
them.

You can laugh, but your opinion is based on inside information that stops at
the walls of your office or lab.

Either way,
consumers going to Canada is only ensuring one thing - that they are
compromising their health by increasing the likelihood that they get duped
by some illegitimate third-party schlepping cheap drugs in front of their
faces.

I've heard this one time and again and seen neither proof nor any kind of
rationale. The cheap drugs being schlepped are the cheap drugs manufactured by
divisions of U.S. companies in other countries. Or they're from non-U.S.
companies where the U.S. division is the overseas unit.


They might not STOP, but they might have to lay-off hundreds of thousdands
of employees and greatly scale back their research and production
activities. Sort of like the airlines. They didn't stop flying, but they
changed their ways to deal with the situation. I'm sure you're looking
forward to a government controlled airline, too.

I'm not looking forward to a government controlled anything, but I'd sure as
hell like to see a medical set up in this country that works for everyone: the
most recent figures I've seen tell me that 41+ million Americans are without
health insurance. From personal experience, I can tell you that can be both
painful and expensive. The expense comes from the medical community having
allowed insurance companies to lock them in in charges for insureds. Thus, if
you're between policies for any reason, and you're not on the dole, you pay
from two to three times the insurance established cost for medical treatment.

My grandmother lived to be 89 and the last about 10 years
of her life were spent being terrified of anyone under the age of 35.

Jesus. I wonder why!

Charlie Self

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and
steady dedication of a lifetime. "
Adlai E. Stevenson