Somehow it doesn't seem the same

[helderheid]

My mom just sent this to me.

Think About This One!!! It's short but very interesting!



A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market.









A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market.







A shoe company can produce its shoes in south east Asia and claim it's a free market.







A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market.







We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico .







We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh .







We can purchase almost anything we want from 20 different countries BUT, heaven help the elderly



who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy...That's called un-American!



And you think the pharmaceutical companies don't have a powerful lobby? Think again!







Forward this to every person you know over age 50. It is an interesting thought.



Maybe this is an issue that should come up in the next election!



The American people are going to have to band together and refuse to be victimized by our government.



If we band together, like so many Americans have in the past.....we can make them listen.



There's only so many jails and prisons.....they can't accomodate all of us.





Forget the 50, send it to everyone. We're all in this boat together!

[liberal N proud]

1. But this the the republican idea of a free market

[John Gauger]

2. It's actually better to buy Canadian drugs

All those other counnties you mentioned don't have labor or environmental laws. Canadian drugs are not made by children chained to sewing machines. And really, I trust the Canadian government more than I trust the FDA. That stuff is probably safer too.

[blue sky at night]

3. best thing to do is avoid the drug culture that is modern medicine.

there are alternatives.

Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Through his creation of The Chopra Center for Well Being in California in 1995, Chopra established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions.

check it out at:

http://www.chopra.com/article62.aspx

[sandnsea]

4. It's even cheaper in Mexico

And the same labels and brands as well. It's ridiculous that "free marketers" would deny citizens the opportunity to participate in the "free market". I wrote my Congressman on this a few years ago. I really don't know how they brainwash so many people into buying some of this spew that is in direct opposition to the rest of their spew. Sometimes I think it's the fast food high starch high sugar diet. Or maybe the long work days that are getting longer thanks to the corporatists. Or maybe it's the deluge of nonsensical news that makes it hard to discern fact from fiction. Hmm.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Are the drugs in Mexico as safe as the ones in Canada?

I lived in the Rio Grande Valley and many folks would get their scripts down there. They said a couple of instances that they didn't get what they were supposed to...and recommended that you get stuff like your Digoxin and other heart meds that you literally HAD to have to survive from the states...just in case.
I have a friend whose daughter spent last summer in Mexico.
Her son got sick. She took him to the doctor and then went to the pharmacy where the pharmacist gave her son a shot (?) and then some pills.
Said it cost about $5 (thereabouts--I don't remember the exact amount).
She said he got better and did just fine.

[sandnsea]

11. Generally, yes

My mom had a heart transplant and my dad had high blood pressure. I don't know what all meds they got in Mexico, but I know they were brand names, just like the ones here. My mom got her critical meds in the US, she was on some programs for them. I don't think it would ever be a good idea to get generics or medication manufactured in third world countries, although I suppose if you knew the country well enough you would learn reliable resources. I mean if bad medicine were killing people all over the world, I'm sure there would be WHO reports. Most countries set prices on meds, that's why they're cheaper. In some ways, the high prices we pay subsidize the low prices in other countries. If we had price control, other countries might have to raise their prices to make up the difference. It kind of annoyed me when Clinton was on TDS talking about surgical equipment sent to third world countries. We're throwing equipment out the door when some people in our own country can't get the surgeries they need. Talk about being out of touch with what's going on in your own backyard. It all gets very frustrating.

[Karenina]

5. Next time you see your Mom

Give her an additional ((((((BIG HUG)))))) and tell her you were ordered to do so by an "internet acquaintance" across the Big Pond. :hug:

[Brundle_Fly]

6. Get this....

90% of the drugs you are buying from us here in Canada, are made in the United States.

They sell them to us, at a very reduced rate.

We sell them for much less than the US companies sell them to you, but we still make a profit.



The reasoning as far as I can figure is that the drug co's in the US have enormous advertising budgets (50% of their entire budget) so to keep you dying for the latest pill, they have to feed it into your head.

Here in Canada you might see ads for aspirin, but not the drug of the week.

[Brundle_Fly]

7. Actually I fear for the US

when I think of how many people are actually completely subdued by prescription drugs. How are you going to fight a corrupt government if you can't even get off the couch.

[Raster]

8. the latest prescription drug provisions in the Medicare Bill specifically

**FORBID** the US government from negotiating better prices from drug companies. FORBID!!! Any clues as to who helped Congress write this law? The number one lobbying group is big pharma and have their tentacles in just about EVERY Congressperson. Ask your Representative or Senator if they've taken money from anything or anyone associated with big pharma. You will be amazed! It is much more important for your elected representatives to fill their warchests with pharma cash than for you and your family be able to afford the drugs you need to stay alive.

[annabanana]

9. The "supply" people are free to go wherever they want...

the "demand" people will take what they're given, at the prices that almost (but not quite) break them.. . And they'll like it. Or else.