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Originally posted by Sebring77
Good God! "Re-imported drugs"???? Talk about putting down the crack pipe. How can you make this so complicated? The drugs come from America. They go to Canada for a certain price. They are also sold here for a number exponentially higher than that certain price Canada paid-same drugs! Do I really have to spell it out yet again? The drugs don't have to go to Canada to magically become cheaper and then sent back. They just need to be sold for a reasonable price right here in the first place.
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I take issue with the drugs being the same. YES, I know chemically they are the same. The issue here is what you have to do to bring a drug to market in the US.
I used to peddle spare parts for Turbo machinery. Rosemont would sell me pressure transmitters. At one time, they had different options, depending on where the transmitter was sent in thw world. Was there any physical difference in the transmitters? No. The markings. The testing. The certifications. In Europe, they require different certs. So, even though the product was essentially identical, it was different because of the certs.
The drugs in the US are different than those in Canada. To bring the drugs to market in the US took longer and cost more, therefore _we_ have to pay more. Even though they are fundamentally the same chemical.
If you really want to fix the prescription drug issue, we need a single standard instead of multiple world wide standards. And, unfortunately, the world is creating _more_ not less standards (CCC - Chinese Compulsary Certification).