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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 Southeast 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 senior citizens who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian or Mexican pharmacy.

That's called un-American and illegal and our politicians want to stop it!

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

Answer 1

This is nothing new. Its all about greed.
The Pharmaceutical companies are lobbying against us buying outside the U,S, because they are losing money, heaven forbid.
Even with the Part D of Medicare many seniors are having to decide which is more important: food or their medication.
Unfortunately, I doubt if this will be resolved in our lifetime. And as long as big companies have lobbyists in Washington, D.C. lining the pockets of our congressmen & senators you are not going to see any changes, no matter how much you moan & groan.
GREED will win out.

Answer 2

I agree with you in part.

The drug companies are getting richer. They now advertise the newest drugs to lure the innocent people into answer their doctors for the drugs. The best and newest drugs that help people are the highest priced drugs. Heaven Help the senior who has no insurance, or anyone who needs drugs for a heart condition or has cancer. Insurance will not pay for cancer treatment because it is considered experimental.

Oh no, I am getting on my soapbox again.

I have always wondered why we don't use the same program that Canada uses. It costs the taxpayer and the hospitals more and more money every year because of the rise in costs for pharmaceutical supplies. I speak from knowledge learned, not just off the top of my head.

It is okay to purchase medications in Mexico if you have a prescription written for it by the Mexican doctor. It is completely legal. I don't know about Canadian practices because I don't even live close to Canada.

However, this is just a little bit of helpful advice. Some medications that are purchased on line may be "watered down" and therefore I would suggest not even going there. I admire the FDA for doing a good job for us in that respect, anyway.

Thanks for the interesting information and point of view of which, as I stated, I agree with 95%.

Answer 3

Yes, you're right. Drug companies have a lot of influence in Congress.

Buying drugs from Canada or any of the Western European countries is okay, I believe. However, if the practice becomes very widespread prices will go up in Canada because the drugs are made by the same drug companies that charge us so much over here. When their profits drop here, they will raise the price there and the Canadians will be forced to pay this higher price or do without.

I would strongly advise against buying drugs from any place else in the world including Mexico. People who have never been to Mexico or live far from the Mexican border simply don't realize that Mexico, in essense, is a third world country, whose businesses are unregulated because of bribery and corruption and whose government is utterly corrupt and contemptible. Counterfeit drugs are very likely.

Save your life, don't buy medicine from Mexico.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, very true...but I feel I must add the thought....there are many, many counterfeit drugs on the market, many of them come from Mexico... Personally, even living but 1 1/2 hours from Tiajuana, I will not buy Mexican drugs, for I have no idea what I am getting. And neither does anyone else...Mexico does NOT police their drug companies..it is always buyer beware. I do not feel that way about Canadian pharmacies. The drug companies here have a very powerful lobby and usually get their way when it comes to legislation regarding where we can purchase drugs. But, even here, there are instances of conterfeit drugs being peddled. The time is coming when these kinds of laws will crumble, but not under a right winged group....that is for sure. As it stands, the US Postal authority has backed off considerably when examining Canadian shipments. I have ordered from Canada and the shipments always show up at my door. Perhaps I have been lucky. But, never the less, I will not buy drugs in Mexico...I have no idea what I am getting, and neither does anyone else. !
And by the way, we have tremendous say so... I hope we all belong to AARP, I hope we all vote. Perhaps it is time to press our officials and see where they stand on this issue BEFORE we go to the polls! That is the only way things are going to change here....Make your points at the polls...with adequate knowledge of who you are voting for. In the US, it seems we vote for the best looking, the younger, the....you name it...we need to start handling our officials as a corporation does..."hire only competent officers to fill the CEO and higher positions! Instead, we react with our basic instincts on relatively small issues. We vote with regards to ... never mind..think about it. When was the last time you voted with regards to issues that directly concern you, a Senior citizen?

Answer 5

The pharmaceutical companies _say_ that the excess monies are used to fund research into new drugs and to subsidize the low cost and no cost drugs given to indigents.

As for pharmaceuticals from Mexico, I would not trust that the drugs are even what they look like. AFAIK, there is _no_ quality control, testing, or even *upheld* laws regarding prescription drugs.
Add to that the apparent hatred of the 'gringo' (as evidenced by the several families of migrants in my area this summer), I would not use even an aspirin which was manufactured in that country.

As for Canada or western Europe, I am under the impression that these countries have the equivalent of the U.S. Food & Drug Admin to ensure quality so no problem using pharms from them.

It should be legal, however, for anyone to purchase any prescription from any certified pharmacy on this planet WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE.

Answer 6

Well, why wouldn't they be called "un-American".
Anybody who has spoken against our present President has been labeled "un-American".

I think it's damned "un-American" to, in essence, rape our own citizens by hiking the prices of pharmaceuticals to the point that we are forced to go outside our own country to meet our needs. We've often touted ourselves as the richest and most powerful nation in the world and I don't doubt it, but that also makes what is being done so much more aggregious ..... that we stick it to one another right up the old wazoo, in the name of money and power, that our citizenry has to buy from other sources. Maybe if some of us weren't so damned greedy, there would be no need. But frankly, I don't see anything changing anytime soon.

Answer 7

Well, I am Canadian and I can assure you that we have the same rigid quality control on our drug productions up here that they do in the states.

We DO have our own drug companies, as well as Canadian subsidiaries of well-known American ones.

And we believe in not allowing those drug companies to get a stranglehold on the market by giving them exclusive use "ad perpetuem" for their products. WE have a time limit on how long a drug can remain the sole ownership of the first to manufacture it.

But all is not lost in the States as well. There is a law on the books to allow competition and the production of generic drugs to bring down the cost of medicines...

http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=269315&&

Maybe you should be lobbying your government representative to see that this gets passed into law quickly and gets implemented in order to help bring the cost of your home made drugs down.

Answer 8

For Senior citizens medicines are very important for them and some of the medicines are life saving drugs. That is why they are careful and not buying anything from Canadian or Mexican Pharmacy. This is my answer. I am a senior Citizen. Yours VRVRAO

Answer 9

Bad news, if true. I buy all my prescription meds in Mexico, same as a lot of other senior citizens.

But they've tried this before. And what you are saying might just [hopefully] be a popular rumor, like so many others on the web.

Meanwhile, you seem to have some anger issues.

The reading list below can act as a source for you. Most of the titles can be found in your local library. If they don't have them they can borrow them from another library.

Anger Management
http://www.amazon.com/Anger-Management/lm/R3IM8KIKMPVT03/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full/002-3352010-2594421

Answer 10

Much as I might dislike the practice, I have to agree with Raghavendra R. Some of these things that have been outsourced are coming back to bite (Pet food and lead-painted toys).

If shortcuts were taken with your medications, you'd be up that well-known creek with no paddle.

Edit:
A thought on drugs from Mexico: If the water isn't safe, what makes you think the drugs are?