Canada under pressure to stop sale of prescriptions to Americans

[Chuckup]

Looks like the squeeze is on to stop Canadian online pharmacies from selling affordable drugs in the U.S.

Take part in a poll on a Canadian Health site and tell them what you think...
http://www.healthtalk.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=230

[Lefty48197]

1. The US drug companies are threatening to limit sales

to their Canadian customers, so that they won't have enough to sell to us.

[Deja Q]

2. The drug companies are part of the group that says life is a privilege

Only those who can afford can survive.

The fuckers should be making costs reasonable. And not making it impossible to get such drugs.

How can the repukes support the "right to life" claim WHILE supporting the fleecing of the world by America's privileged medical industry? :shrug:

[JackSwift]

3. they are too greedy to do that

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[Chuckup]

4. They actually want to stop all drug sales to Canada

so it's no longer a question of having enough to sell to the U.S. It has become a question of "Will there be any drugs for Canada".

I guess Dubya now has his war on drugs in full attack mode.

[7th_Sephiroth]

9. write your local goverment representitives

and ask that they make drug advertising illegal, the U.S. is one of the few countries to allow such things, and the commercials do NOTHING because thier PRESCRIPTION drugs and the DOCTOR decides whats best for you

on edit

something i left out, if you get them to stop makeing commercials and ad's, the price on drugs will drop

[Sufi Marmot]

5. If push comes to shove...

...won't the Canadian government just yank patent protection out from under drug companies who misbehave? Then there would be a steady steam of REALLY cheap drugs available for US consumption, at least theoretically...

-SM

P.S. Can someone explain to me why this isn't covered by NAFTA? Theoretically, why don't Canadian pharmacies have the right to sell in American markets? I mean, I know big business loves free trade until they're the ones getting screwed by it, but how is this any different than American companies moving factories and jobs to Mexico where labor is cheaper? And big pharma can't complain about Canadian government subsidies, since every other American industry benefits from tax-free economic development zones in developing countries...

[Chuckup]

6. NAFTA?

The U.S. under the Bush administration has blocked the import of goods from Canada despite the agreement.

NAFTA only works if it's good for Bush business friends, that seems to be more of a fact now.

[coyote]

7. I still don´t get it......

Why can corporations go to another country and buy cheap labor?....and
I can´t go to another country and buy cheap medication.

[truthspeaker]

8. simple:

Because they are corporations and you are a measly individual citizen. The US is now governed "By the corporatins, for the corporations, of the corporations (but paid for by the people)."

[Chuckup]

10. You got it SIMPLE...

It's all for profits on the backs of the citizens, nothing more nothing less.

I'm sure Bush has a big bank roll from these drug manufactures..anyone have any info on how much these corps put into the Bush campaign?