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07-02-2005, 01:23 AM
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What ails John Kerry's drug plan?, AIMS in the Globe
Globe & Mail
Dated: 14/10/04
What ails John Kerry's drug plan?
Brian Ferguson (http://www.aims.ca/aboutaims.asp?cmPageID=237)
In Florida, Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, recently denounced the Bush administration for not permitting the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from Canada, so that seniors, many of whom are Florida swing voters, could get cheaper drugs.
So does this mean Mr. Kerry, formerly a protectionist, has become a free trader? Will he allow Americans to import other goods at world prices when those prices are below US prices?
<CENTER>Bush blocked drugs importation and Medicare bulk purchasing
</CENTER>Health-care costs are getting higher. One of the principal reasons is that the Bush administration has stood in the way of common-sense efforts that would have reduced the costs. In the Senate we passed the right of Americans to import drugs from Canada. But Bush and his friends took it out in the House, and now you don't have that right. Bush blocked you from the right to have less expensive drugs from Canada. We also wanted Medicare to be able to negotiate bulk purchasing. We could have done that in Medicare. Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty. But rather than help you, the taxpayer, have lower cost, rather than help seniors have less expensive drugs, Bush made it illegal- illegal! -for Medicare to actually go out and bargain for lower prices. Result: $139 billion windfall profit to the drug companies coming out of your pockets. That's a large part of your 17% increase in Medicare premiums.
<CENTER>Source: Third Bush-Kerry debate, in Tempe AZ Oct 13, 2004 </CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER>Promise of cheap drugs form Canada may be a promise unfulfilled</CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER>http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3537862&nav=0RcebbXO</CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER>(Grand Rapids, June 29, 2005, 5:19 p.m.) Getting drugs from Canada has been the hope of many who would like to enjoy the savings found north of the border.
The Bush administration has been unwilling to allow so-called re-importation and now a Canadian government official may make the whole discussion in this country unnecessary.
Canada's health minister says the country can't continue to be a cheap "drug store for the United States". He went on to say he'll ask the House of Commons to ban bulk export of prescription drugs when supplies are low.
The Canadian move comes in direct response to at least four bills pending in the U.S. Congress that would allow imports from our northern neighbor.
Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow has been a leading proponent of getting lower price drugs from Canada
Ha! Just what I thought Kerry had his head up his you-know-what on this one too, big suprise. There is no way Canada with 25 million can supply the U.S. 290million with prescription drugs. Especialy when Canada's health care system subsides their drugs to make them cheaper. The higher taxes in Canadains pay part of which gos in to cheaper drugs. There is no way they would just stand by as Americans buy up all their less expensive drugs.
The Dems never had a clue.
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What ails John Kerry's drug plan?, AIMS in the Globe
Globe & Mail
Dated: 14/10/04
What ails John Kerry's drug plan?
Brian Ferguson (http://www.aims.ca/aboutaims.asp?cmPageID=237)
In Florida, Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, recently denounced the Bush administration for not permitting the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from Canada, so that seniors, many of whom are Florida swing voters, could get cheaper drugs.
So does this mean Mr. Kerry, formerly a protectionist, has become a free trader? Will he allow Americans to import other goods at world prices when those prices are below US prices?
<CENTER>Bush blocked drugs importation and Medicare bulk purchasing
</CENTER>Health-care costs are getting higher. One of the principal reasons is that the Bush administration has stood in the way of common-sense efforts that would have reduced the costs. In the Senate we passed the right of Americans to import drugs from Canada. But Bush and his friends took it out in the House, and now you don't have that right. Bush blocked you from the right to have less expensive drugs from Canada. We also wanted Medicare to be able to negotiate bulk purchasing. We could have done that in Medicare. Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty. But rather than help you, the taxpayer, have lower cost, rather than help seniors have less expensive drugs, Bush made it illegal- illegal! -for Medicare to actually go out and bargain for lower prices. Result: $139 billion windfall profit to the drug companies coming out of your pockets. That's a large part of your 17% increase in Medicare premiums.
<CENTER>Source: Third Bush-Kerry debate, in Tempe AZ Oct 13, 2004 </CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER>Promise of cheap drugs form Canada may be a promise unfulfilled</CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER>http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3537862&nav=0RcebbXO</CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER>(Grand Rapids, June 29, 2005, 5:19 p.m.) Getting drugs from Canada has been the hope of many who would like to enjoy the savings found north of the border.
The Bush administration has been unwilling to allow so-called re-importation and now a Canadian government official may make the whole discussion in this country unnecessary.
Canada's health minister says the country can't continue to be a cheap "drug store for the United States". He went on to say he'll ask the House of Commons to ban bulk export of prescription drugs when supplies are low.
The Canadian move comes in direct response to at least four bills pending in the U.S. Congress that would allow imports from our northern neighbor.
Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow has been a leading proponent of getting lower price drugs from Canada
Ha! Just what I thought Kerry had his head up his you-know-what on this one too, big suprise. There is no way Canada with 25 million can supply the U.S. 290million with prescription drugs. Especialy when Canada's health care system subsides their drugs to make them cheaper. The higher taxes in Canadains pay part of which gos in to cheaper drugs. There is no way they would just stand by as Americans buy up all their less expensive drugs.
The Dems never had a clue.
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