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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (3381)	1/26/2001 12:21:10 AM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 59480

...Canada, I bought ...for $10, and ..here, a prescription...cost me $68...now can someone explain that one to me? Part of it is price discrimination, the same as is used by, for example, airlines. The pharmaceutical companies try to recover a big part of their fixed costs, and research, by soaking the "wealthy" segment of their market. They can then profitably exploit additional markets at a smaller premium to their marginal costs. They are abetted by patent law and import restrictions imposed by their thieving friends in government. In the end, it is a coercive subsidy paid to a valuable industry that is perfectly capable of making a lot of bucks on their own merits. By buying mail order prescriptions from Canada, we save almost $3,000.00 a year. It'd be more, but we have to make, and pay for, three trips annually to get a Canadian Dr. to ratify our American scripts. Sure is a peachy deal that we have these maggots in government protecting us peons.