Things that make you go, hmmmmmmmm
POSTED BY: FutureMrsFIllion
UPDATED: Thursday, May 10, 2007 20:25
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A car company can move it's 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 senior citizens who dare to buy their prescription drugs from Canadian or Mexican pharmacy. That's called un-American! 
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Kinda makes you want to fix up an old ambulance, learn some lines regarding stimulating cortical .. um , so you can sneak into a core planet hospital and loot the pharmacy. ...
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The defense that I have heard is that drugs from another country are not held to the high standards as ours so it would be unsafe. Something tells me that the prescription drugs that Canada has are just as good as ours. Mexico, maybe not as as safe. But most people want to buy from Canada anyways. Sounds like the pharmaceutical lobbyist are bribing the pants off of everybody.
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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
BUT, heaven help the senior citizens who dare to buy their prescription drugs from Canadian or Mexican pharmacy. That's called un-American!
I work in the medical industry (notice how I no longer call it a profession) and the reason pharmaceutical companies don't want Mexico and Canada involved is exactly what you'd think. The R&D process. First to blame in my eyes, lazy unionized bureucrats from the FDA. Next, Overpaid sales reps from pharmaceutical giants who conduct worldwide tours promoting products with "Sky's the limit" expense and entertainment accounts. Throw in an overpaid CEO, and a demanding board of directors, and you have one expensive R&D process. I haven't named everybody, not by a long shot.
Now, if Canada or Mexico comes along right after the patent runs out for a new drug and produces it cheaply, the pharm industry will tell you they loose money, and woe is me, they'll say they can bearly go on.
I went on a tour of a pharmaceutical distributor about 2 years ago. The parking lot looked like an auto show for expensive imported cars, IE Benz, Lexus, Range Rover, etc. I'm not a communist but that industry needs to be taken down a peg.
And you can't change that by gettn' all bendy.
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Quote:Surely you're not sayin' that CEO's and drug reps should be driving lowly Corvettes and Mustangs....
Originally posted by MalBadInLatin:
I'm not a communist but that industry needs to be taken down a peg.
Ostentatious Saturn driver Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall
Surely you're not sayin' that CEO's and drug reps should be driving lowly Corvettes and Mustangs....
Ahhh yes...can you imagine the horror...I fear that I shall surely languish and die from the very thought....
If you spend all your money on prescriptions because your copays are high, or no coverage at all. Just call Pfizer or Glaxo, ask to talk to sales, then ask whomever answers the phone to come pick you up and give you a ride home cuz you just spent $250 to support thier lifestyle.
And you can't change that by gettn' all bendy.
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Nancy Reagan said it best: "Just say no to drugs!"
No Drugstore Cowboy Chrisisall
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One could always heed the warnings...don't smoke, watch your weight, don't eat eggs and steak everyday for breakfast, don't drink, go exercise more, don't have sex with sluts or homosexuals, if it has a wart on it..don't put it in your mouth, don't eat mosquitoes or your boogers, slow down on sodium and crack, and my favorite...floss daily. This will allow you to be healthier, fitter, and less reliant on big pharma products....but, what fun is that...I mean really, I'd rather bitch and moan when older about needing to buy drugs for Herpes, high cholesterol, cancer, heart disease, anal warts, AIDS, and my favorite...Gingivitis.....Well, just one man's opinion.......
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Quote:For many people saying 'no' isn't an option.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
"Just say no to drugs!"
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
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Quote:I've had much fun being with (being-?) the first group, and I detect a phobic element with your inclusion of the second.
Originally posted by kaneman:
don't have sex with sluts or homosexuals
Just sayin' Chrisisall
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