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Health minister warns that Canada cannot be 'the drug store of the United States'
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Posted on 11/10/2004 7:18:49 PM PST by maui_hawaii
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To: SuziQ
I believe the drug purchasers have no recourse if the Canadian drugs are injurious.
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posted on
11/10/2004 7:48:27 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
To: xJones
Yes, Ujjal Dosanjh is a real person. I had lunch with him in September 1999 in Vancouver, BC as part of a junket by rail from Seattle to Vancouver and back for the Amtrak Reform Council.
They had one Canadian per table full of Americans to help stimulate conversation, and my table got Ujjal, who was then a provincial cabinet minister in British Columbia from the New Democratic Party. The NDP is to the left of our Democratic Party, even to the left of the Howard Dean wing.
It was a fascinating lunch.
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posted on
11/10/2004 7:55:28 PM PST
by
Publius
(Digital Minuteman)
To: DmBarch
Then the Canadians will require proof of resedency to get their drugs.
That's fine. Our government, however, should not interfere with Americans buying lawful products overseas.
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posted on
11/10/2004 7:55:30 PM PST
by
BikerNYC
To: RedLightBob
If drug companies don't give in to the price caps of other countries, the other countries won't honor the patents and will reproduce the drugs
To: Publius
and my table got Ujjal, who was then a provincial cabinet minister in British Columbia from the New Democratic Party. The NDP is to the left of our Democratic Party, even to the left of the Howard Dean wing. Thank you, a very informative report. I guess this doesn't bode well for the Americans using Canadian pharmacies.
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posted on
11/10/2004 8:01:08 PM PST
by
xJones
To: maui_hawaii
Fair enough. Does this mean we can elect to stop being the employment office for all of the world then?
To: xJones
Ujjal Dosanjh is a native of India. He served as Premier of British Columbia and is a Liberal Party delegate from Vancouver.
"Dosanjh, who hails from Dosanjh Kalan, near Phagwara, and moved to Canada as a teenager, is a lawyer by profession and headed the NDP Government in British Columbia. After the last provincial elections a couple of years ago, he quit politics and joined the law practice of his two sons.
(from Tribune India, January 26, 2003)
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030126/spectrum/main8.htm
IF YOU MUST KNOW.....
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posted on
11/10/2004 8:39:31 PM PST
by
eagle11
(Conservatives are Red, Liberals are Blue.....let's come together so we can....?)
To: SuziQ
I would like to know if the people in Canada who purchase prescriptions have the right to sue the drug manufacturers I'm not sure but I do know settlements and awards by the courts are not as high as in the US . Advertising of drugs is not allowed in Canada and if you do a bit of research you'll find that all the big multinational drug companies spend more on advertising than they do on R& D. That and buying in bulk is a great advantage for both buyer and seller . Twenty year patents don't hurt either.
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posted on
11/10/2004 8:49:27 PM PST
by
Snowyman
To: Rusty0604
Question: if a drug company X sells drug Y to a population of 300 million for 100% of their asking price, and they make profit P which we baseline as 100%. Then they have a secondary market of 10% of the 300 million and they have to sell it for, let's say, 30% of the above asking price. This secondary market will increase P from 100% to 103%.
For the additional 3% they incur the danger of alienating the original market, have people travel up there and therefore reduce P, have potential patent infringement and what not. Major risk management required which could, if it's going awry, ruin the company as a whole.
Why would any drug company be interested in that?
I think it is sheer greed. It's the same like airfare depending on the point of origin. A return flight from New York to Ireland is $1200 while the exact same flight booked in Ireland is $700.
Drug companies try to reap every cent they can. They rather take 3% additional profit than foregoing a market.
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posted on
11/10/2004 9:48:00 PM PST
by
drtom
To: jwalsh07
Every leak in the dike to bring down this house of cards helps. I am hoping it collapses during Bush's second term, so he rather than Hillary can address the fix.
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posted on
11/10/2004 10:46:36 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Rusty0604
Yeah. You touch on a really valid point.
The geo-political-economic pressures definitely are a factor here.
One of the greatest most positive [and underreported] things coming out of the tragedy of 9/11, was cheap AIDS drugs for Africa - caused by a similar dynamic.
Bob.
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posted on
11/11/2004 6:11:18 PM PST
by
RedLightBob
(God is smiling on US)
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