Evan Bayh votes against low-cost drug imports

[IndianaGreen]

Both of Indiana's Republican Senators, Dick Lugar and Evan Bayh, voted against the importation of low cost drugs into the US.

Republican Senator Evan Bayh is running in the Democratic primary next year to fool Hoosiers into thinking he is a Democrat.

Susan and Evan Bayh own millions of dollars in stock in health insurance and Big Pharma. Susan Bayh sits on the board of WellPoint.

Senate rejects low-cost drug imports

Plan would have allowed Americans to buy prescriptions from abroad

WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a plan Tuesday to allow Americans to import low-cost prescriptions from abroad, handing drug makers a victory that may help secure passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

The vote on the amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., was 51-48 in favor, but 60 votes were needed to prevail under a special rule. Obama had supported the measure as a senator, but his administration echoed safety concerns raised by the pharmaceutical industry — which is supporting the Democrats' health care bill.

An angry Dorgan denounced a competing amendment that would permit drug imports if the Food and Drug Administration certifies it can be done without risks.

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Dorgan's plan would have allowed American pharmacies and drug wholesalers to import federally approved drugs from Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan — placing them within reach of average consumers.

Both the pharmaceutical industry and the Obama administration were lobbying against the proposal, saying it would not protect people from potentially dangerous or ineffective drugs. Dorgan's plan would have cost drug makers billions of dollars and had bipartisan support.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34438653/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

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1. The mark of true politicians

When you are bought, you stay bought.