[SWAMPSNIPER]

I wonder if you really know just how expensive some of the drugs are. What we are doing now is forcing Americans to pay for all the research and developement while the rest of the world gets the drugs for pennies on the dollar. I know that the R&D costs must be met, but why must Americans bear all the burden?

If I couldn't order from Canada I'd be in bed on full time oxygen, or dead. Walmart drug prices would leave me with about $100.00 a month to live on, food, shelter, everything. The drug companies are global, America is their cash cow, we pay the bills, the rest of the world gets the cheap pills!

[Ben Ficklin]

"R&D costs must be met"

Pharma's R&D costs of yester-year are substantially less today. Computer modeling has done that.

Like wise, Phama's purification costs have been reduced because of instrumentation and automation.