Ok bush is all for free trade right?? so we can get goods and send goods..

[southernleftylady]

from all over the world.. but why not our medicines???
because of threats??
but our food comes from all over right??
hmm...

[wakeme2008]

1. Because those terrorist in Canada will

hurt Bush's drug company friends..... and the stock market will,,, oh wait is it still at the place it was when he took office... My mistake... :evilgrin:

[babylonsister]

2. I take it you watched '60 Minutes' last night.

The premise that these drugs would be dangerous are outrageous. It's all about the bottom dollar. The drug companies won't make the meds available to the US at a fair price but Gawd Forbid! someone comes up with an idea to undercut their over-inflated prices! :hi:

[southernleftylady]

3. lol no actually ;) nt

[babylonsister]

4. Oh, well, I try. This topic was covered. There's a company in

Europe (Denmark?) that buys the drugs en masse, repackages them under a similar name w/o touching the actual meds in any way, and sells them cheaper. They'd like to expand to the US but are getting shot down/shut out by the big pharma companies. It's called parallel trade:

http://www.ims-global.com/insight/news_story/0210/news_story_021030.htm

[Double T]

5. Lobbyists For The Pharmaceutical Companies Need To Be Banned...

..from their ability to influence our elected officials in creating laws that are designed to royally screw the American Consumer. There is far too much influence from large corporations in our Government and it needs to be stopped. Baning Lobbyist and Term Limits would be a good start.