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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (39725)	12/17/2009 4:35:44 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 71588

The ban on drug imports is a violation of free market principles. Your right, but the price controls and/or government enforced monopsony buying by the various countries who have lower priced on patent prescription drugs, are themselves a violation of free market principles. It is (or should be) an illegal restraint of trade, and an illegal restriction on the economic activities of American citizens and companies. No more so than the various tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers, or arguably the laws making the trade in various drugs illegal. Not that this is much of an argument for the re-import ban, since I'm pretty much against all those other laws and regulations as well, but this is hardly some special isolated case, or one that stretches much further toward government control over trade and the economy than other laws. Its less of a forceful government intervention than say the idea of requiring people to buy health insurance, or requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, both of which are being pushed a lot in the debate over health care "reform".

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