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Poor Gringo'S To Keep Buying Our Drugs...
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Fri Sep 22, 2006 @ 10:17am |
 Coolness: 145260 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans could buy and carry home prescription drugs from Canada under an agreement reached Thursday between House and Senate Republicans.
Customs agents would be prohibited as part of a Homeland Security spending bill from seizing up to 90-day supplies of prescribed medicines brought across the border. Buying cheaper prescriptions over the Internet or by mail-order from Canadian pharmacies would still be prohibited, officials said. Because of government price controls in Canada, prices there for many popular brand-name prescription drugs are 30 percent to 80 percent lower than in the U.S., according to surveys by The Associated Press and others. "This really breaks the dam, and it shows that it's only a matter of time before we pass a full-blown reimportation bill," Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, said of the agreement, which came together on the same day that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced it plans to slash prices for generic prescriptions. Vitter acknowledged that sales of drugs through mail order or over the Internet is more significant. But, he added, "I think support for that is going to continue, and going to continue to grow, no matter what this bill says or doesn't say." President Bush, like President Clinton, has rejected repeated congressional efforts to lift the ban on prescription imports. While importing drugs into the United States is illegal, the Food and Drug Administration generally has not stopped small amounts of medicine bought for personal use. However, Customs officials last November began intercepting prescription drugs coming across the border. Since then, Customs and Border Protection agents have seized more than 34,000 packages of drugs coming into the country. A pre-election controversy over that enforcement policy threatened to split House GOP leaders who oppose lifting the import ban and rank-and-file Republican lawmakers who want to help elderly voters buy cheaper drugs. Democrats who pushed for broader access to imported drugs accused Republicans of trying to "blow smoke to the voters about cheaper prescription prices when it really doesn't do much of anything," said Dan McLaughlin, spokesman for Sen. Bill Nelson. "It really doesn't help very many people." Opponents said importing drugs that do not have FDA approval could be unsafe for consumers. The FDA says it cannot guarantee the safety of imported drugs. Representatives for the pharmaceutical industry said Canadian Internet pharmacies, for example, have been known to sell fake and potentially unsafe medicines to unknowing American consumers through other countries. "Americans should look at much safer alternatives that already exist and are proving to be incredibly effective here at home," said Ken Johnson, senior vice president for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA. According to the Congressional Budget Office, brand-name drugs cost, on average, 35 to 55 percent less in other industrialized nations than they do in the United States. Supporters of importing drugs contend that the U.S. is subsidizing the cost of medicine for the rest of the world. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Sep 22, 2006 @ 11:07am |
 Coolness: 339725 | I find it kinda funny when they say that the drugs sold in our pharmacies aren't as safe as US drugs cause they haven't been tested b the FDA.. seems like there are plenty of unsafe drugs that the FDA has approved in the past.. vioxx anyone? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Fri Sep 22, 2006 @ 1:37pm |
| Coolness: 145260 | well don't you know the US FDA is so much better than the canadian (Canada Health i believe it's called) after all it is american... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Sep 22, 2006 @ 2:03pm |
| Coolness: 339725 | Hells yeah! |
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