” Never mind all Washington’s hifalutin arguments about intellectual property, free trade and safety;’
Uhm, my Lipitor comes from Pfizer LLC, Auckland, New Zealand. So, the intellectual property is that of Pfizer, who also makes Lipitor in the US. And free trade IS me being able to buy something from a Canadian pharmacy in Winnipeg. As for safety, do you really think Pfizer makes unsafe Lipitor in New Zealand? Why ever would they?
The so-called reimportation legislation would force drug comapnies to sell a certain amount of product to Canada and other countries with price controls on drugs, whether they want to or not.
Right now, Imclone doesn’t sell Erbitux to Canada because Canada’s health service wanted too little money for it. But Byron Dorgan and his allies, among them the socialist advocates of “free trade” at FR, would force Imclone to sell it whether or not the price is acceptable to Imclone.
In what sense is that “free trade”?